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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:45:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      -Vince- <vince@mercury.gaianet.net>
To:        JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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, Chad Shackley <chad@mercury.gaianet.net>, jbhunt <jbhunt@mercury.gaianet.net>
Subject:   Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960624164353.21697G-100000@mercury.gaianet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199606242059.NAA01968@ref.tfs.com>

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On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, JULIAN Elischer wrote:

> > 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)
> 
> I haven't looked recently to see if that still works for FreeBSD..
> I last looked in  386BSD..

	Oh well, I remember in Linux when there was 386 0.1...  you can 
login as a regular user, run vi (elvis) on /etc/passwd and then suspend 
and then like recover and it would make a copy of /etc/passwd

Vince
GaiaNet System Administration




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