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As root?As root?Posted Jan 5, 2012 16:30 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)Parent article: A hole in telnetd
Why must telnetd run as root? Once it's listening for incoming connections, can't it drop privileges and then run login(1) to authenticate new sessions?
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