Re: -froot??? (AIX rlogin bug)

[baba () ph-meter beckman uiuc edu (Baba Z Buehler)]

ericw () fx com (Eric Wedaa) writes:

> Someone over on the firewalls mailing list just threw out this tidbit:
>
>    rlogin aix.machine -l -froot
>
> For instance:
>  
>    rlogin foobar -l -froot
>
> This gives you root access on any AIX 3.2.X machine.
>
> Does anyone have any history on this trapdoor?  Apparently
> it also existed in Linux several generations ago.

That's a bit old, and I believe IBM has at least an "unofficial" fix for
it now.  

I run some Linux systems, and I haven't seen the problem in any of the
Linux 1.x releases.

b
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