Whilst looking through the code in utils/login.c, I noticed a security issue.
Even if --paranoid is set, if you give it a UID that doesn’t exist (login
treats it as a UID if the first character is a digit, with no fallback to
treating it as a username), it will exit without prompting for a passw
Hello, Hurd hackers!
My main goal working on Hurd is to get more people to use the GNU
system, so we can achieve critical mass to make the system develop at
an acceptably pace. In order to solve this problem it's necessary to
fix the most prominent issue preventing people from migrating to it,
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