On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:36:40PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:47, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > We already have such a group, named "shadow". In fact, I don't know why > > unix_chkpwd is setuid root rather than setgid shadow. > > Bug report #155583 has been open for over a year. I have repeated the tests > of Lee and Robert and verified that it works fine as SETGID rather than > SETUID. > > Also I believe that Lee's statement regarding NIS is incorrect, unix_chkpwd > only does /etc/shadow.
I agree completely; this seems long overdue. Sam, do you have any reservations about this? -- - mdz
