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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Nasty bug in FreeBSD-2.0 chfn/chpass
Date: 13 Feb 1995 01:27:04 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl., Montana
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Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

[ Trying out my new Inet SLIP connection.  Let's hope this works.... ]

>I just discovered a bad bug in FreeBSD-2.0 chfn/login. When
>a password has expired for an ordinary user, login execs
>passwd and lets that user change the root password (!!).

Yep, this bug was found and fixed after 2.0R was released.  It's fixed in
the -current sources and will be in 2.1.

Thanks for pointing it out!



Nate
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