Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.3-30.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi!

/bin/login is currently installed setuid root, which is absolutely not
necessary and only a potential security threat. In Ubuntu we install
it as 0755 for ages now without any problems.

Trivial patch, but for the record:

  http://patches.ubuntu.com/patches/shadow.login-nosuid.diff

Please consider making this change for Debian, too.

Thanks,

Martin

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Martin Pitt                       http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer            http://www.ubuntulinux.org
Debian GNU/Linux Developer       http://www.debian.org

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