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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 
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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.  


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