Security in SunOS

[Jonathan Knight]

> In article <784 at jt.dk> erl at jt.dk (Erik B. Larsen) writes:
>>I've noticed af security-hole in SunOS (maybe).
>>If you have a diskless workstation mounted on af server, and they are running
>>NIS, then of cource you only have one entry for root (on the server).

You can remove the 'secure' option for console in /etc/ttytab and then
you won't get a shell.  Instead you'll get a demand for a password.


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