"In the previous message, Norman Wilson said..." > > Bill Cheswick suggests that programs be made set-groupid `utmp' to write > on /etc/utmp; Mitch Wright observes that if writing on utmp allows you to > become super-user, group utmp just becomes another name for userid 0. > This is true if there is really some program that trusts the contents > of utmp and must itself run as the super-user. Are there any such > programs? I can't think of any. Consider the comsec daemon for one example. -- pat@rwing [If all fails, try: rwing!pat@ole.cdac.com] Pat Myrto - Seattle WA "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers, nationally syndicated advice columnist and Director at Handgun Control Inc.