Hi, Mark Janssen wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 18:11, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > > *TECHNICALLY* every login is root. Getty runs as root and then gives up > > root > > to the authenticated user once PAM gives the okay...Does this mean the user > > can break back into root? If the exit their shell (Ctrl + D, or pick your > > choice > > of logout method...) then Getty immediately respawns.... > > No... getty exec's a shell (or a login actually) and when this exits > the inetd restarts the getty. :)
inetd? you mean init ;) btw the respawn is only done, if you have the word "respawn" in /etc/inittab before ":/sbin/getty". but getty has not to run with _all_ root-privileges, it just has to run as user root with some root-privileges. for more info about this, have a look at http://www.lids.org bye Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
