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- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:17:08 -0500
- From: Larry W. Cashdollar <lwcashd@TROUT.BIW.COM>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: snap utility for AIX.
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- My friend actually brought this to my attention, the snap command is a diagnostic utlitiy for gathering
- system information on AIX platforms.
- It can only be executed by root, but it copies various system files into
- /tmp/ibmsupt/
- under /tmp/ibmsupt/general/ you will find the passwd file with cyphertext. The
- danger here is if a system administrator executes snap -a as sometimes requested
- by IBM support while diagnosing a problem it defeats password shadowing. I
- would think that snap would create the directory 700 root:root.
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- -- Larry
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