From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 24 15:27:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28467 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28448 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:26:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05978 for bugs@freefall.freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:26:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01547; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:40:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:40:41 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2804: /usr/sbin/login reports: "root login refused on this terminal." when it should report "Login incorrect" References: <199702231810.KAA22803@freefall.freebsd.org> <9702241516.AA03803@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9702241516.AA03803@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Feb 24, 1997 10:16:15 -0500 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Both aren't correct either. They allow spying additional UID 0 > > accounts. > > There shouldn't be any additional UID 0 accoinds. In your picture. You are not the center of the world, and other admins might have reasons to have another picture than you. There's no point in additionally compromising their security. A simple ``Login incorrect'' is the most logical refusal message, regardless of what's been the reason for the refusal. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)