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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1994: Re: login -h

Re: login -h

Bogdan Pelc (pelcfb3-s7.math.tu-berlin.de)
Thu, 8 Dec 1994 09:26:14 +0100 

>>>>> "EA" == Ed Arnold <eraucar.edu> writes:

  EA> James Bonfield wrote:
  >> A typical spoof would be:
  >> 
  >> rlogin targethost -l -htargethost
  >> 
  >> Then type in the user and password. It'll then appear to last, who and
  >> probably finger, on targethost that the user has logged in from that
  >> system, not from remotely.
  >> 
  >> This bug occurs on several systems, such as DEC OSF/1 V3.0 and
  >> Concentrix 2.1.  I have tried Solaris 2.3 and SunOS 4.1 which both
  >> appear to be safe from this at first glance. (We haven't got a newer
  >> SunOS 4.x unfortunately! So I've done no tests on 4.1.3U1.) I expect
  >> most other systems are safe too.

  EA> Both 4.1.3_U1 and AIX 3.2.5 appear to be safe ...

But not on AIX 3.2.4, on this system this Trick does its work.

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