[syslog-ng] login.pdb reworked

Matthew Hall mhall at mhcomputing.net
Fri Nov 5 17:38:04 CET 2010


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:01:31PM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> login alwazs runs as the root user. I'd be surprised if there was an
> exception to that.
> 
> Don't forget that this is only about the "login" program, executed by
> getty-s and telnet, not when another daemon runs authenticates the user
> (which certainly may run as non-root).

Perhaps true. But now that POSIX capabilities is catching on it might 
not be true forever. And an extra patterndb variable never makes anybody 
worse off. ;-)

> Bazsi


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