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Re: -froot??? (AIX rlogin bug)
From: baba () ph-meter beckman uiuc edu (Baba Z Buehler)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 15:58:03 -0500
ericw () fx com (Eric Wedaa) writes:
Someone over on the firewalls mailing list just threw out this tidbit: rlogin aix.machine -l -froot For instance: rlogin foobar -l -froot This gives you root access on any AIX 3.2.X machine. Does anyone have any history on this trapdoor? Apparently it also existed in Linux several generations ago.
That's a bit old, and I believe IBM has at least an "unofficial" fix for it now. I run some Linux systems, and I haven't seen the problem in any of the Linux 1.x releases. b -- # Baba Z Buehler # Beckman Institute Systems Services, Urbana Illinois # # "How come that big box of bright ideas you sent # me is the one they say fell off the truck?" -- Butch Hancock # # WWW: http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/groups/biss/people/baba/ # PGP Public Key available via finger baba () beckman uiuc edu
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