Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:55:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty_snoop: why check uid? Message-ID: <19970605085549.GA03896@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199706050254.WAA20216@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Jun 4, 1997 22:54:45 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604154944.8133A-100000@misery.sdf.com> <199706050254.WAA20216@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > Because if the tty snoop is not root, he/she soon will be. It is better > >not to fool yourself, and give the root password to all snoop users. > > I do. And I wanted to get around having to use 'su' for this operation. Make suser(9) a no-op then. :-] The kernel won't ever enforce to you again to be root for some operation... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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