>>>>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:11:50 +0100, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> said:

>> Do /usr/libexec/ftpd, /usr/libexec/rshd, /usr/libexec/rlogind and
>> /usr/libexec/telnetd has the setuid bit? No.
>> Most of programs which need to call PAM don't have to be setuid root,
>> because they *already* has root privilege.

> This is bogus, inetd wouldn't have to be root if these programs didn't
> need root privileges.

That's not right.

Look at 5th field of /etc/inetd.conf, please.
How do you implement the feature without having root privilege in inetd?
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