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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
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        "[Mario1-]" <mario1@PrimeNet.Com>, JbHunt <johnnyu@accessus.net>
Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

=)I would check also /etc/inetd.conf to make sure he didn't set himself up
=)with a root-environment on some port, I know finger -P will let you run
=)for example a shell, and if it is set up as root, well... 

	The inetd.conf file was unaltered since I checked that already.


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