What to do about nologin(8)?

[Arne Schwabe]

Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:45:07PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
>>   For security reasons, nologin(8) must be statically linked;
>
> What that mystical reasons are, exactly? I see no one while it is not have
> s-bit set. At least -current /sbin is dynamically linked, so nologin must
> too.

See for example: http://www.mindsec.com/files/5JP0H2A7PW.html

Arne
-- 
<Amici|Kitty> 666 is the number of the beast ;P
<momo8D> 6667 is the number of you losing whatever social life you might
have had.                                              -- (bash #214827)