trapdoor passwords

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From: Graham Toal
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 03:16

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Has anyone heard a rumour circulating that some crackers have found a
trapdoor password that lets people on to Next machines with root
privs?  I told the person I heard it from that it sounded like total
bullshit to me, but I just thought I'd ask in case anyone else had
heard something...

G
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!kate.ibmpcug.co.uk!gtoal
From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: trapdoor passwords
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 03:16:17 GMT
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