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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:52:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To:        "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG, "[Mario1-]" <mario1@PrimeNet.Com>, JbHunt <johnnyu@accessus.net>
Subject:   Re: security hole in bsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970728125043.3844q-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970728132405.4159B-100000@netrail.net>

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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

=)BTW: You said you didn't know how he hacked into your other system as he
=)doesn't have an account on it.  Do you have a .rhosts file in the root
=)directory of the other server or a hosts.equiv file allowing the two to
=)share root/other privileged logins between the two?  As root he'd be able
=)to su to anything.  How about NFS/rdist permissions?  

	There was no .rhosts file in root until he created it and the
contents were just two +'s which I deleted the files afterwards but he
still got back on.  hosts.equiv is whatever FreeBSD shipped with, I never
configure that file.  Don't have NFS or rdist running either.


Cheers,
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