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From: guido@wzv.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: root login on insecure terminals
Message-ID: <3862@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:28:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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When root has no password, and you try to login as root from an
insecure terminal, you succeed. Is this spec, or just a bug?
I saw this behaviour on 386bsd, but the login it uses is from
the net2 tapes (at least I think so.)

-Guido