Re: Security hole with WU-FTPD

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From: Jacques Distler
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00

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In article <mumfordF5rn4H.B0L@netcom.com>, mumford@netcom.com (mumford) wrote:

>>His comment is that while login does not allow a remote root login
>>with no password, ftp does allow a root login with no password. This
>>is what he is calling the bug in ftpd.  It certainly is an 
>>inconsistancy between the two.
>>
>>It is also true that this bug is minor compared to the bug which allowed
>>a root user to be entered into passwd without a password.
>
>In a way it is an inconsistancy, but in another way it isn't.  The linux
>login program has been hacked (if you will) to pay attention to a file
>called /etc/securetty (may vary from dstrib to distrib).  Wu-ftpd could
>not care less about this file, since ftp doesn't open a tty.

Color me stupid, but why does he allow root ftp logins, *period*.
Shouldn't root be in his ftpusers file?

JD

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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Subject: Re: Security hole with WU-FTPD
Date: 1999/01/18
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