Bug#300720: Bug#300725: Bug#300720: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#300720: Login: Configuration does not load limits.so while others do

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:53:13PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I'm quite reluctant asking the release team as I bet they would
> finally say "do just like you feel is the most appropriate" and thus I
> don't really want to add mroe load on their shoulders.

IMO the change is safe and reasonable.

> For another situation related to the login package (dropping the
> setuid bit from login), I have finally concluded to delay this
> post-sarge. So, I think I'll do the same here.....unless other
> comments convince me to change my mind....

Consider getty/mgetty/vgetty running/forking as non-root.
// although I didn't see such a system myself...

Also:
> /usr/bin/login doesn't have to be setuid root even
> with PAM, it if doesn't need the traditional feature
> that users can change their login-user from their
> login-shell.
-- 
Bye!
xrgtn