On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:19:19AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Now that we have working Unix98 ptys for all systems (except m68k, > which doesn't want to move to glibc2.1 for some reason?) we no longer > need to make a process setuid root just to create a new pty. This > includes programs like xterm. > > There is a slight problem though: utmp. Currently only root can update > the utmp. To solve this I propose we create an utmp group and put in > policy that programs that want to modify the utmp should be setgid utmp > instead of setuid root (unless root is needed for other purposes of > course).
This seems so obvious to me that I am surprised we haven't done it yet. Seconded. => -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Oryn> anyone know if there is a version of dpkg for redhat?
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