Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:31:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net> To: terry@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Terry Carroll) Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login hole Message-ID: <199508171831.NAA05161@mpp.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <199508171242.OAA08020@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Terry Carroll" at Aug 17, 95 02:42:30 pm
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Terry Carroll wrote: > > Login with no home directory should be denied for normal user. > Should not drop one into /. Yes it should. A very good example is if the file system that contains the home directories could not be mounted or is inaccessable for some reason. Normally I can just login via dial up and su to fix it. If login didn't let me in, I would have to drive into work and login as root on the console to fix it. You can also make the argument that users in group wheel are not "normal users". -- Mike Pritchard mpp@mpp.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"help
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