[1777] in bugtraq
Re: password backdoors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Lawson)
Wed May 10 22:24:12 1995
From: Nathan Lawson <nlawson@statler.csc.calpoly.edu>
To: root@sentinet.demon.co.uk (System Admin)
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 18:07:37 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199505102016.AA03896@sentinet.demon.co.uk> from "System Admin" at May 10, 95 09:15:59 pm
> Can anyone enlighten me further into how this would be
> done and if such back doors exist in other operating
> systems.
That was most likely DEC's intent with the "field:service" account.
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