Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2804: /usr/sbin/login reports: "root login refused on this terminal." when it should report "Login incorrect" Message-ID: <199702232250.OAA06641@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2804; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2804: /usr/sbin/login reports: "root login refused on this terminal." when it should report "Login incorrect" Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:03:08 +0100 As Mike Pritchard wrote: > Both cases should probably just report "login incorrect", and send > a syslog message about. I also think so. Note that we've plugged a similar hole in uucpd long ago (in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 or earlier), while it's still wide open in 4.4BSD-Lite2. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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