Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 22:54:45 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: tom@sdf.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty_snoop: why check uid? Message-ID: <199706050254.WAA20216@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970604154944.8133A-100000@misery.sdf.com> (message from Tom Samplonius on Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:52:23 -0700 (PDT))
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>> Why does the snp device check to make sure that the user invoking it >> is root, instead of letting the admin set the permissions on the >> device to whatever he feels appropriate? > 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. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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