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Re: the watchdog of login program
From: |
Roland McGrath |
Subject: |
Re: the watchdog of login program |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:59:41 -0400 (EDT) |
> 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.
There probably should be a runtime check in login that would catch this.
For example, checking for errors from proc_setowner would be good.
It also shouldn't manage to make the auth handles it asks for, and should
be complaining about that.
- the watchdog of login program, Ognyan Kulev, 2004/08/25
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Roland McGrath, 2004/08/25
- Re: the watchdog of login program, ogi, 2004/08/26
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Roland McGrath, 2004/08/26
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Roland McGrath, 2004/08/26
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Ognyan Kulev, 2004/08/26
- Re: the watchdog of login program,
Roland McGrath <=
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Ognyan Kulev, 2004/08/27
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Roland McGrath, 2004/08/27
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Ognyan Kulev, 2004/08/28
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Roland McGrath, 2004/08/30
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2004/08/30
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Roland McGrath, 2004/08/31
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2004/08/30
- Re: the watchdog of login program, Michael Banck, 2004/08/26