Re: setuid programms
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
>
> > If it is suid you can do an exec login from a top level shell.
>
> Silly question number two; why would anyone other than root want to
> do such a thing?
To log in as a different user of course. The need to do so is left as an
exercise to the sysadmin.
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