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Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:17:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   why does telnetd run as root?
Message-ID:  <200108301817.f7UIHNa66577@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010830201102.O69247@ida.interface-business.de>
References:  <20010830201102.O69247@ida.interface-business.de>

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<<On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:11:02 +0200, Joerg Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> said:

> But then, it's IMHO much safer to run telnetd as user
> `daemon', and have login(1) allow user daemon to pass -h.

Only works for cleartext password authentication.

-GAWollman


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