[22513] in bugtraq
Re: Possible Issue with Netinfo and Mac OS X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stuart Moore)
Tue Sep 4 00:49:00 2001
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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 14:49:28 -0400
From: Stuart Moore <smoore@securityglobal.net>
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To: Benjamin Gardiner <cvisors@off-fw.tved.net.au>,
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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>> Anyway to get to the core of the matter, I was looking through the
>> file structure, looking at some of the config files, and such, when I
>> happened to look in /var/backups in var/backups there was one file called:
>> "local.nidump"
[snip]
>the same information as above can be gained with the command:
>
>nidump passwd . (iirc i don't have any OSX systems around anymore)
Ethan: You remember correctly.
This was reported back in July of this year on a few lists.
Stuart
Reference:
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5QP032A4UU.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2001/Jul/1001946.html
also, somewhere on securemac.com, but that server is down right now,
so I can't find the exact URL.
