Re: the watchdog of login program

[Michael Banck]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:51:53AM +0300, ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg wrote:
> Even without debugging it's obvious that main process doesn't get owner
> (looking with ps, etc).  I tried to investigate why, but I didn't succeed.
>  As I said, this happens only when login is run as non-root or from
> inetutils-telnetd (as root).
> 
> Is it possible that this has some relation with
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251863 ?  Perhaps both
> bugs creeped simultaneously some months ago.

This bug was an artefact from changing the Debian packaging a while ago.
/bin/login is not suid currently, which will be fixed by the next Debian
hurd package release.

Does chmod u+s /bin/login solve this problem?


Michael