Re: -froot??? (AIX rlogin bug)

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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.

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