GENERAL WARNING

[Steve Simmons]

glenn at suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:

>What about vendors deliberately putting trap-doors in their distributed 
>binaries?

>We had a Dual Chapparal (68020 Sys V.2 with FFS) and after a long time (several
>years) discovered that 'su' worked without a password provided the users
>current directory was /etc! I think that this was left in so that engineers
>doing on-sight servicing could become 'root' . . .

I'm appalled.  You should post this to comp.unix so as to properly
blacken their name.