[875] in bugtraq
magic??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robert owen thomas)
Wed Feb 1 17:19:16 1995
From: rthomas@pamd.cig.mot.com (robert owen thomas)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:22:40 -0600
To: bugtraq@fc.net
hello, list-folk--
the other day, i happened to join a conversation about Unix security with
a couple of fellows at a local bookstore. one of them mentioned the "magic"
hole. i have heard mention of this hole before, but i assumed the hole
no longer existed. apparently, this was a hole in /bin/login. does anyone
else remember this? the last time i heard mention of it was *several*
years ago, hence my assumption. then again, i recently spotted an old
sendmail hole ("wizard") at a site, so one can never really assume anything,
yes?
regards,
--robert
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