4.0 Enhanced Security & root/field accts
Ian! D. Allen [CGL]
idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Thu Sep 13 16:03:38 AEST 1990
In article <48811 at cmcl2.NYU.EDU> rosenblg at cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Gary J.
Rosenblum) writes:
>Background - Ultrix 4.0 installed, ENHANCED security enabled.
> (Using the auth database).
>
>The way it is distributed, the root and field accounts both have
>uid 0, gid 1. Problem is, when you set the password for root,
>field gets set the same, and vice-versa. This is due to the uid
>being the key into the database. This is not "fatal", but it might
>introduce problems to the non-wary ranging from passwords seemingly
>changing, to a security hole.
Oh dear. Does this mean I can't have different uucp logins using
the same uucp uid? Will they all have to have the same password?
--
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
[129.97.128.64] Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada
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