From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 29 13:04:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09405 for security-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (root@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA09398 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frontera (mario1@ip62-196.vcv.primenet.com [207.218.62.196]) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA06507; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:03:49 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:07:55 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "[Mario1-]" To: Vincent Poy cc: Nate Williams , "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" , security@freebsd.org, JbHunt Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: Mario1@imap.primenet.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: : Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:12:44 -0700 (PDT) : From: Vincent Poy : To: Nate Williams : Cc: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" , security@freebsd.org, : JbHunt , "[Mario1-]" : Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD : : On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Nate Williams wrote: : : =)Vincent Poy writes: : =)> Apparently FreeBSD ships with .rhosts in the root account. : =) : =)Apparently you've yet to find a clue. Go rub yourself with clue juice, : =)and dance the clue dance, and maybe you'll get one. : Thanks so much for the above Nate. That was real helpful. : Nothing is unhackable. and the hacker did say it was the .rhosts : file along with perl5.00401 that did it. Nothing is foolproof. Exactly. Regards, -- Mario1@PrimeNet.Com http://www.primenet.com/~mario1 Eskimo Democracy: "If you continue to subscribe to this list only to publically oppose any descision nanook or I make, I'm going to disallow you post permission to this list." dwild@eskimo.com