login setuid root

[Stephen J. Muir]

In article <380 at sol1.UUCP> john at sol1.UUCP (John Korsmeyer) writes:
>I would appreciate someone filling me in on the advantages/disadvantages
>of running login setuid to root. BTW our login forks, not execs the
>login shell. (for accounting purposes).

The only disadvantage is that a user can't type "login other-user".  They would
have to logout first.
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