Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.2

Scott Neugroschl scott_n at xypro.com
Tue Mar 19 02:32:53 EST 2013


> > [...]
> > > Along the same lines, will a yet-to-be-designed patch have a
chance
> > > in future, which replaces all tests for uid == 0 with a
> > > platform-dependent function testing the uid for being any
> administrative user?
> >
> > Yeah, that's the intent, and I think it's what Damien meant by "use
> it
> > pervasively".
> >
> > > We discussed this a couple of times in the past and I even
provided
> > > a patch ages ago, but this never came to fruition.
> >
> > Sorry, I probably dropped the ball on that.
> 
> No worries.  It would be nice if we could pick it up at one point :)

That would be awesome for me as well.  On an HP Nonstop, admin is also
not 0.


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