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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: rlogin localhost (security hole) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. References: <1993Apr27.191444.29243@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <C65xo9.Et@veda.is> Message-ID: <C6615x.G8s@kithrup.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 23:27:19 GMT Lines: 12 In article <C65xo9.Et@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: >Possibly not related, it was brought to my attention that 'rlogin localhost' >on a machine with an ethernet interface does the following: > >$ rlogin localhost >localhost: Undefined error: 0 It does not do this on my system. 0.1+patchkit-0.2.3+misc. Never has, either. In addition, SUID (and SGID) programs are not supposed to core-dump.