On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:17 AM, rouble <[email protected]> wrote:
> Busybox Gurus,
>
> I am looking into providing the login functionality to non-root users.
> When I make the busybox executable setuid by root, login is accesible
> by non-root users. However, I don't understand the need for this? Why
> is login being required to get root permissions.

How unprivileged program run by user foo can possibly allow
him to become user bar?

> It isn't this way on typical linux installs.

Typical linux installations do not bother to test whether
login run by user even works as intended.

-- 
vda
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