|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. This was patched quite some time ago... The APAR # is IX44254 -- it is available through "fixdist" via aix.boulder.ibm.com. |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 |