utmp and friends
Steve G
linux_4ever at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 27 11:07:00 UTC 2007
>The problem is that setgid binaries have some environment variables
>like LD_LIBRARY_PATH and TMPDIR removed.
This is correct. Otherwise you could have a security risk.
>Unfortunately I can't fix it unless utempter is accessible without setgid. Do
>we really need to protect the file from bad applications?
Yes we must restrict access of that file.
-Steve
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