Re: hack that changes root to Root

[Mike Shaw <mshaw () wwisp com>]

I've seen a sophisticated Trojan horse program that does this.

It basically tricks me into hitting the insert key in vi which capitalizes 
the letter.  This is particularly on the very first letter on the very 
first line where the cursor starts (like "root" in etc/passwd).  So far I 
haven't seen a publicly available exploit, so I have no idea how it knows 
I'm in a hurry and been living in notepad all day. ; )

-Mike

At 05:49 PM 2/25/2002 -0700, James wrote:
> Anyone know of a hack that changes root (user name) to Root ?
>
> James Edwards
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