Package: debian-policy Severity: normal 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).
I propose an amendment that the wtmp and lastlog files also be writable by members of group utmp. This way, programs like xterm and its decendants can properly log their sessions to these files as well. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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