Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:37:27 -0500 From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net> To: Andrzej Szydlo <andrzej@maciek.gv.edu.pl> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking for uids 0 in /etc/security Message-ID: <19980925113727.A9163@Mcs.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980924182059.3540A-100000@maciek.gv.edu.pl>; from Andrzej Szydlo on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 06:26:14PM %2B0200 References: <19980925095238.A20899@mcs.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980924182059.3540A-100000@maciek.gv.edu.pl>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 06:26:14PM +0200, Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Alex Nash wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:42:10PM +0000, Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
> > > I've just noticed that /etc/security checks for strings "0" in the uid
> > > field of the master.passwd file.
> >
> > This was fixed in July with the following revisions:
> >
> > 3.0-current 1.25
> > 2.2-stable (2.2.7R) 1.16.2.6
>
> I'm running 2.2.7-STABLE, but CVSuped it from 2.2.6-RELEASE (last cvsup
> yesterday) and my /etc/security file version is 1.16.2.4. Does it mean
> CVSup doesn't solve such problems or I'm doing something wrong?
'make world' (or equivalent) won't upgrade /etc/security. Assuming
you haven't modified /etc/security, the simplest thing is to do is:
cp /usr/src/etc/security /etc
Alex
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