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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: bin/2804: /usr/sbin/login reports: "root login refused on this terminal." when it should report "Login incorrect"
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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.
 
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 cheers, J"org
 
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