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From: Tomas Telensky <ttel5535@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
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> 
> trustix.co.id?  hehehe.
> 
> If you don't want to login with user/password, then change your
> password to "".  Don't want to even do that?  Then just change
> /etc/inittab to invoke "login -f username" instead of mingetty or
> whatever.  No need at all to hack the kernel up.
> 
> Dunno why you sent the patch here or to Linus though..  The
> chance of it even being looked at are about 1/2^infinity  ;o)

:-) Great.
You and Alex are right - I agree that this is a complete moronism.

But, what I should say to the network security, is that AFAIK in the most
of linux distributions the standard daemons (httpd, sendmail) are run as
root! Having multi-user system or not! Why? For only listening to a port
<1024? Is there any elegant solution?

  Tomas



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