From owner-freebsd-security Sat Dec 7 14:09:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA12414 for security-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA12409 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from durham@localhost) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA00378 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:02:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 16:53:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Strange behavior on 2.1.6 Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm a newbie to this list. I seem to have found a problem in 2.1.6 that allows someone logged in as a user to su to root without password or much effort. This may possibly be due to some configuration stuff here, but I thought I would report it. I assume I don't just give the details here? -Jim Durham