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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: bin/1805: Bug in ftpd
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> 
> After the setuid, I will be able to make it dump core, or even better
> use `ptrace' and then login will still have the file descriptor
> pointing to /etc/spwd.db open and I can make it read the complete
> shadow file.

endpwent closes the spwd.db if I'm right so that would be impossible.

-Guido