making fingerd non-root

Charles mcgrew at topaz.rutgers.edu
Sun Dec 25 07:11:13 AEST 1988


Hi,

Concerning setuid-ing fingerd to make it not run as root, can anyone think
of a reason of not setuid-ing finger to 'who'?  That seems to be a fairly
inoffensive uid...

Charles

[[ Well, I don't think "who" is assigned in the distributed system, but
the idea of inventing your own username and allocating a uid to it is a
very good one.  --wnl ]]



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