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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: i386/40965: Random root access to non-root users from remote ssh shell
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The following reply was made to PR i386/40965; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Marcos Galindo <galindo@cable.net.co>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/40965: Random root access to non-root users from remote ssh shell
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:56:08 +0100

 On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Marcos Galindo wrote:
 > System runs an API on Postgresql 7.2 to control a small business.
 > Users login remotely from freebsd, linux and windows machines via
 > ssh. Remote root login is not allowed. Randomly, however, current
 > users, using their usual login names and passwords, find they have
 > logged-in as root.
 
 Are they actually logged in as root or is it just that their prompt
 is getting set to something ending with a "#"? Can you send the
 output of the "id" command for a user who finds themselves in this
 situation?
 
 	David.

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