a thought about UNIX login security
trt at rti.UUCP
trt at rti.UUCP
Thu Jun 23 23:34:30 AEST 1983
Oh yuck, 'joe' was a normal user. My example was wrong.
(I do not have any original records, so I reconstructed
it from my own /etc/passwd, but was careless in doing it.)
Of course, there *are* systems with that kind of gaping hole.
The point of the story is the same in either case:
It is almost impossible to restrict something as general as the shell.
Tom Truscott
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