Phillip Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Not directly in reference to this problem, just some more information.]
> *TECHNICALLY* every login is root. Yes, that is how it works in Unix. People could say that this concept is not perfect. Since Debian is not only a GNU/Linux distribution anymore... In GNU (that is, GNU/Hurd) things are different: a login happens without _any_ UID - a concept Unix does not know about. Your login program contacts the Hurd "password server", which runs as root and does nothing beside verifying authentications and giving out "authentication handles" to processes, which contain Unix UIDs/GIDs. That is simply the natural way of doing things when you are not only limited to lower privileges like it is the case in Unix and are able to raise your privileges. As a side note: many network daemons could make use of this special feature to be more secure. moritz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://duesseldorf.ccc.de/~moritz/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]