[1863] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris 2.x utmp hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Woods)
Sun May 21 23:27:37 1995
From: Neil Woods <neil@legless.demon.co.uk>
To: Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 01:40:11 +0100 (BST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9505190712.AA28699@aft-ms.Holland.Sun.COM> from "Casper Dik" at May 19, 95 09:11:36 am
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> Casper Dic said:
> In Solaris 2.5 this is fixed. utmp entries added with the set-uid
> program "utmp_update" get marked. Those entries can be removed
> and even changed to some extent.
>
> Entries entered by programs running as root (login thru telnetd and
> rlogind, ftpd etc) can no longer be removed in 2.5.
How did you manage this?
Cheers,
Neil
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