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Re: telnetd/login hole

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Wed May 18 15:45:02 1994

Date: Wed, 18 May 94 15:44:29 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: eichin@MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Mark W. Eichin"'s message of Wed, 18 May 94 13:17:13 EDT,
	<9405181717.AA25153@rt-11.MIT.EDU>

Note that this isn't a login security hole, but is properly a telnetd
security hole.  The login -f flag is useful, after all....

						- Ted

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