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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:07:34AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >So, what should be fixed? su(1), rc(8) or my understanding of them?
>=20
> Make the setuid program set the real id to 0 before exec'ing su.

Yes, please do this!  I've also had problems with database/postgresql from
pkgsrc.  It also tries to use su to stop a daemon, which prompts for
a password if you run shutdown as normal user.

Regards,
Peter
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