Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 20:23:36 -0500 (EST) From: James FitzGibbon <james@else.net> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: FREEBSD-SECURITY-L <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Temporary passwd files in /etc? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960215202232.30726B-100000@else.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960128130513.29165A-100000@zap.io.org>
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On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Brian Tao wrote: > I found these two files lying around in the /etc directory of one > of our FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE machines here. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 459403 Jan 20 15:35 pw.007939.orig > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 612563 Jan 25 19:06 pw.021282~ > > pw.021282~ is a world readable/writeable copy of the master.passwd > file. How did either of those files get there? Do the serial numbers > on them look familiar to anyone (pids?). I didn't see an answer to this in the list, but they are created by chpass/vipw type utilities. I've never seen one get mode 666 though. Maybe Nerk did it. j.
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