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Re: CVS commit: basesrc



Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun%iijlab.net@localhost> writes:
>       setuid(getuid()) was there before I work on it (if I remember
>       correctly), and telnet(1) is NOT a setuid'ed program.
>       I wonder why it is here.

The only reason of it being there would be to allow for people willing
to make telnet setuid, which I don't think anyway should.  And I
wouldn't trust telnet being setuid either.  So I think the right thing
is just to remove these.

/assar



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