[4504] in bugtraq
Re: SunOS exploit.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Mon May 19 12:37:43 1997
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 11:20:01 -0400
Reply-To: juphoff@nrao.edu
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@TARSIER.CV.NRAO.EDU>
X-To: Trevor Linton <blind@SEDATED.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, May 18, 1997 13:36:00 +0000
"TL" == Trevor Linton <blind@SEDATED.NET> writes:
TL> On sunos, if you execute a clean bash shell then type, export USER="root"
TL> then USER=$LOGNAME, then execute chsh root or chfn root you can change
TL> the root information.
TL> On the SunOS system i have [...]
What version(s) of SunOS?
I just tried this on an old 4.1.2 system I have and I could not
duplicate it.
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