Re: the watchdog of login program

[Ognyan Kulev]

/* Cc: Jeff */

Roland McGrath wrote:
> Both 251863 and the failure to set owner could be the same problem.  They
> would both happen if the login process were not properly authenticated as
> root (to the proc server for setowner and to the tty filesystem for chown).

I've finally found what's going on: login always expects to be run as 
root, and Debian's hurd package doesn't make it set-UID root.  I've 
retitled 251863 and raised severity to important, hoping that next hurd 
package will include fix.

Regards,
ogi