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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:42:10 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Andrzej Szydlo <andrzej@maciek.gv.edu.pl>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Checking for uids 0 in /etc/security
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980924133020.1141A-100000@maciek.gv.edu.pl>

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Hi,

I've just noticed that /etc/security checks for strings "0" in the uid
field of the master.passwd file. 

awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} $3=="0" {print $1, $3}' /etc/master.passwd
                    ^^^^^^ 
In this way it doesn't notice entries like this:

myroot:xxxx:000:000:....

while such an entry still gives uid 0.
Changing this line to:

awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} $3==0 {print $1, $3}' /etc/master.passwd
                    ^^^^^
solves the problem.


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