Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:02:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970728230037.3844E-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <6894.870155971@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: =)> 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. :-) I just verified it and you're right. It doesn't but what about the adduser program? I have a tarball of my home directory and there is no .rhosts there either. I wonder how the .rhosts got there in the first place. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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