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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 01:33:05 -0700
From:      "Dima Ruban" <dima@sivka.rdy.com>
To:        "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Veggy Vinny)
Cc:        mark@grumble.grondar.za, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, jkh@time.cdrom.com, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!
Message-ID:  <960625013305.ZM10146@sivka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> "Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!" (Jun 24,  1:59pm)
References:  <199606242059.NAA01968@ref.tfs.com>

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On Jun 24,  1:59pm, JULIAN Elischer wrote:
> Subject: Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Mark Murray wrote:
> >
> >
> > > What do you get from strings(1)? (Long shot..)
> >
> > -rwsr-xr-x     1 root  users  278528 Jun 18 04:01 root is from the dir
>      ^ DUH!
> There  was also the one that used rdist in daemon mode
> to rdist itself a new copy of /etc/passwd (and friends)

With rdist bug in daemon mode you were able to change permissions
on any file. So you don't even have to copy password file.... :-)

>
> I haven't looked recently to see if that still works for FreeBSD..
> I last looked in  386BSD..
>
> julian
>
>
>
>-- End of excerpt from JULIAN Elischer



-- 
-- dima



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