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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:52:38 -0500
From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net>
To: Andrzej Szydlo <andrzej@maciek.gv.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: Checking for uids 0 in /etc/security
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On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:42:10PM +0000, Andrzej Szydlo wrote:
> I've just noticed that /etc/security checks for strings "0" in the uid
> field of the master.passwd file. 

This was fixed in July with the following revisions:

   3.0-current           1.25
   2.2-stable (2.2.7R)   1.16.2.6

Alex

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