Re: RedHat 6.1 /and others/ PAM

[vectro () PIPELINE COM (Ian Turner)]

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Simple Nomad wrote:

> Trying to "echo PASSWORD | su ACCOUNT" will elicit a response of
> "standard in must be a tty..." therefore the sploit would stop on the
> first word in the list as if it was the correct password. Therefore I fail
> to see the exact sploit here. I tried this on a stock RH 6.1 machine.
>
> -         Simple Nomad          -  No rest for the Wicca'd  -
> -      thegnome () nmrc org        -        www.nmrc.org       -
> -  thegnome () razor bindview com  -      www.bindview.com     -

You could create a more complicated exploit using ptty's. Basically su
checks if standard input is a tty because they don't want you using 'su'
in shell scripts. But you can still do it, it's just not as easy.

I'd contribute example code but I just woke up. :b

Ian
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