[plug] auto-login

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Wed Apr 3 10:44:59 WST 2002


On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:28:28AM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> um... setuid bit on the script (chmod +s) then chown to bernard

It is a huge security fault to run shell script setuid.  As a result,
many shell scripts will not run that way.  (Yes, perhaps this is less
relevant on a system that automatically logs you in but it's still
somewhat relevant.)

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