Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB devicealloc

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 06:11:40 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > That is, you've done audit of pine, lpc, screen, wall, write, mail, xterm,
> > etc. installed SGID-root, right? Would you mind sharing it? Ditto for
> > suid-root man, if you please. Ditto for the method of storing s[u|g]id in
> > the first place (doable, but you'll have to screw around with the
> > attributes).
>
> A lot of that work has already been done actually. With the utmper tool and
> with glibc pty helpers screen and xterm are no longer required to be setuid
> if set up that way. Pine can be run with IMAP access only and not setgid
> root/mail.

David had switched to glibc??? It's sure sign that the end is near ;-)

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