On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:42:53 -0400
Lew Pitcher  wrote:

> Because it needs root privileges to set up a specific user's execution
> environment, the login(1) binary must run with the "effective" userid of
> root. That means that either root runs login, or something that becomes
> root (like sudo) runs login.

 Is login not setuid in Raspbian then ? It's not something I use a
lot but I've always expected it to be setuid.

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