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shadow problems.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (twiztah)
Mon Nov 9 13:24:41 1998

Date: 	Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:28:26 +0000
Reply-To: twiztah <twiztah@BRUTALITY.SNAKEPIT.COM>
From: twiztah <twiztah@BRUTALITY.SNAKEPIT.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG

shadow-980724 contains a little problem.

if you add a user and then remove him, then add him again and try to
remove, your machine is gonna start caching and the load average would
rise..

Jul 25 20:27:56 superunknown passwd[8960]: password for `redneck' changed
by `root'
Jul 25 20:28:12 superunknown userdel[8984]: delete user `redneck'
Jul 25 20:28:12 superunknown userdel[8984]: delete `redneck' from group
`users'
Jul 25 20:28:12 superunknown userdel[8984]: delete `redneck' from group
`redneck'

Jul 25 20:38:28 superunknown passwd[9305]: password for `redneck' changed
by `root'
Jul 25 20:38:38 superunknown userdel[9314]: delete user `redneck'
Jul 25 20:38:38 superunknown userdel[9314]: delete `redneck' from group
`users'
Jul 25 20:38:38 superunknown userdel[9314]: delete `redneck' from group
`redneck'
Jul 25 20:38:44 superunknown last message repeated 39417 times
Jul 25 20:38:44 superunknown udplog: port 111 connection attempt from
127.0.0.1
Jul 25 20:38:44 superunknown icmplog: destination unreachable from
localhost
Jul 25 20:38:44 superunknown userdel[9314]: delete `redneck' from group
`redneck'
Jul 25 20:38:48 superunknown last message repeated 25536 times
Jul 25 20:38:49 superunknown userdel[9331]: delete user `redneck'
Jul 25 20:38:49 superunknown userdel[9331]: delete `redneck' from group
`users'
Jul 25 20:38:49 superunknown userdel[9331]: delete `redneck' from group
`redneck'
Jul 25 20:38:49 superunknown last message repeated 5603 times
Jul 25 20:38:51 superunknown userdel[9334]: delete user `redneck'
Jul 25 20:38:51 superunknown userdel[9334]: delete `redneck' from group
`users'
Jul 25 20:38:51 superunknown userdel[9334]: delete `redneck' from group
`redneck'
Jul 25 20:39:02 superunknown last message repeated 73328 times




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 [twiztah@brutality.snakepit.com]

 Brutality \Bru*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Brutalities}. [Cf. F. brutalit['e].]
  The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness;
  pitilessness. An inhuman act.

 Snake \Snake\, n. [AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel.
  Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent,
  whether harmless or venomous.

 Pit \Pit\, n. [OE. pit, put, AS. pytt a pit, hole, L. puteus a well, pit.]
  A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall;
  hence, a trap; a snare.

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