Alan Post wrote:

> In article <3DF67E75.90801@mukappabeta.de>, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> The problem you mention is an illustration of why setuid is a bad OS
> feature.  My primary motivation in trying to find a different user db
> was to remove setuid programs.

Either check out PAM, or to avoid the setuid crap
<SPAM>
http://fuzzauth.sourceforge.net
</SPAM>

Or stuff like kerberos comes to mind too partially ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen