Re: Environment Poisoning and login -p

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 02/26/04

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    To: kientzle@acm.org
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:14:40 +0100

    Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> writes:
    > There's been an ongoing discussion (started by
    > Colin Percival's recent work on nologin) about
    > environment-poisoning attacks via "login -p".
    > [...]

    You missed the obvious solution: remove login(1)'s setuid bit so it
    only works if you are already root.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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