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- From: benni@pfsparc01.phil15.uni-sb.de (Benjamin Lorenz)
- Subject: bug in the new BSD login
- Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 04:05:07 +0200 (MET DST)
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- Hello,
-
- by accident, I found the following bug in the BSD login program:
- If you try to log in as "root" on a tty with the "secure" flag off, you
- get the message "root login not allowed from this terminal". So far, so
- good. But if you log on then as "guest" with no password, you get
- a root shell! :-)
-
- Adding a "rootlogin = 0" before the "continue" in login.c should solve
- the problem...
-
- Benni
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- Benjamin Lorenz, Brunnenweg 33, D-66133 Saarbruecken
- Phone: +49 681 815702, E-mail: lorenz@dfki.uni-sb.de
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