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- From: subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao)
- Subject: Re: revisited, determining if anyone else is logged on
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.160043.22953@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Dec3.173635.5114@Princeton.EDU> <1ggn1lINNalt@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Dec14.155936.22789@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:00:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.155936.22789@Princeton.EDU> subbarao@fc.hp.com writes:
- >In article <1ggn1lINNalt@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >>subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
- >>
- >>>>Change your terminal to "/.rhosts" and do an rwall of "+ +".
- >>
- >>>Cute idea, too bad you didn't try it:
- >>
- >>>Dec 3 10:27:55 electro syslog: wall : utmp file corrupted, /dev/../.rhosts
- >>>is not a tty
- >>
- >>What was the *idea* behind that anyway? *puzzled look*
- >>How's it give you root access?
- >
- >If you somehow were able to put + + in /.rhosts, you could
- >rlogin machine -l root. That would most definitely give you root access.
-
- Well, let me qualify that. It will give you root access unless you've set
- up your system to specifically prevent it.
-
- -Kartik
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