setluid(0) in SCO ?

Chip Salzenberg chip at tct.uucp
Sun Sep 23 11:46:30 AEST 1990


According to ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo):
>Can anyone think of any breaches of unix levels of security if one
>were to simply leave the login uid as zero ?  ... then we
>would effectively have just normal Unix behaviour.

Sorry.  There are many system utilities that still care about the
subsystem databases in /etc/auth/subsystems.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>



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