Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:59:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> Cc: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>, "[Mario1-]" <Mario1@primenet.com>, JbHunt <johnnyu@accessus.net>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Tomasz Dudziak <loco@onyks.wszib.poznan.pl>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD Message-ID: <6894.870155971@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:27:15 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970728172339.3844N-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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> Just a update on how the break-in was done after the hacker was > confronted on irc. > > Apparently FreeBSD ships with .rhosts in the root account. Using No, FreeBSD does not ship with .rhosts in the root account. This must have been a local change. If you do not believe this then simply do a fresh installation of FreeBSD and see for yourself - sorry, you shot your own feet off here. :-) Jordan
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