Re: the watchdog of login program

[Roland McGrath]

> Roland McGrath wrote:
> > There probably should be a runtime check in login that would catch this.
> > For example, checking for errors from proc_setowner would be good.
> > It also shouldn't manage to make the auth handles it asks for, and should
> > be complaining about that.
> 
> I don't understand the last sentence.  Could you clarify?

auth_makeauth will fail when the caller is authenticated as nonroot.