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Re: password backdoors

From: nlawson () statler csc calpoly edu (Nathan Lawson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 18:07:37 -0700 (PDT)

Can anyone enlighten me further into how this would be
done and if such back doors exist in other operating
systems.


That was most likely DEC's intent with the "field:service" account.

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