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From:
Tom Phoenix
Date:
December 4, 1999 10:45
Subject:
Re: getspnam-support
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.10.9912041043180.10802-100000@user2.teleport.com
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, John Macdonald wrote:

> Providing the password to all root programs means that any program
> that *might* be run by root

Come on. Any program *might* be run by root.

If the superuser runs programs which shouldn't be run by the superuser,
the game is over.

-- 
Tom Phoenix       Perl Training and Hacking       Esperanto
Randal Schwartz Case:     http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/


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