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Subject: User operator under Red Hat 6.2
From: DIEGO GARCIA _ DIRECCION DE SISTEMAS-. (drgarciaJAVERIANA.EDU.CO)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 09:49:46 CDT

Good day,

It's not necessesary a bug but is abig problem when you install Red Hat 6.2 and one
user different to root has guid root, even worse if you don't know it.

User: operator
Home : /root (oops! same home than root, same bash history!)
Main group: root

(May be you find usefully operator user but may be you must change its home,
 also you must think about that in a dictionary attack there are two roots to find)

If you find some PAM message with a remote change password to operator
becarefull, may you must look for in root history not-normal activity

Have a nice IT day

Diego García
System administrator
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
t. (571) 3208320 ext. 2362