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Re: setuid programms



On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> > login
> 
> Actually, why is this suid?  Should it ever be run by anyone other
> than root?

If it is suid you can do an exec login from a top level shell.

Greg

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