VB: become_root remove patches (head)

[Matthias Wächter]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Langasek wrote:

> Also, Unix traditionally requires the user to be able to prove he knows the
> old password before allowing a password change.  Compromising user accounts
> becomes a lot easier if any process running with the user's permissions can
> modify the smb password entry.

So ... why not split this part from smbd to a program running suid 0 like 
/bin/passwd? Same problem, same solution, isn't it?

Sehr Wus,
- Matthias

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