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Question about ksu and root instance tickets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (99700000)
Thu Jun 7 15:16:57 1990

Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 11:18:38 -0700
From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

The ksu command reminds you to destroy the root instance ticket
before you exit the super user shell.  I got to wondering if the
root instance ticket is ever used for anything once you get to
be super user - could the ksu command just destroy it automatically
when it is about to fork the root-owned shell?

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