On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 07:37:05PM -0800, R Garth Wood wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chris Leishman wrote: > > > The main problem, however, is that it needs to validate the people > > connecting, > > thus needs to check username/password (like pop). Is there a way to do this > > and still avoid using root privileges for the daemon? > > The passwd file is in the shadow group so you could run it sgid. > > > +---------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ > | R Garth Wood | Lottery: A tax on people who are | > | Net Nation Communications Inc. | bad at math. | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
I guess this is a way, but I was hoping there might be some sort of suid program or syscall that I can use to interface between me and the shadow file. Chris -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The box said "Windows 95, NT or better" .. so I installed Debian Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5
