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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:11:35AM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

database/postgresql is why I started a thread about this a while ago which=
=20
resulted in the fixed version of shutdown. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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