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Article #290a unix security problem
From: hao zhou
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 1990 18:14
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 1990 18:14
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Case I. UserA started an xterm and ended up as userB. Case II. One user found out that he was in someone else's Emacs session while he was still trying to log in. (This happended when he was using a terminal server to connect to the timesharing machine.) Is this a unix security problem? Does it have something to do with pty ownership? Can some knowledgable person explain how this could happen? Thanks in advance ... -- Hao Z. -- Internet:haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu BITNET:haozhou%acsu.buffalo.edu@UBVM.BITNET UUCP: uunet!acsu.buffalo.edu!haozhou
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!altos!megadon!clp From: haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) Newsgroups: comp.unix Subject: a unix security problem Message-ID: <2232@megadon.UUCP> Date: 20 Oct 90 18:14:14 GMT Sender: clp@megadon.UUCP Followup-To: comp.unix Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 17 Approved: clp@megadon.UUCP Nntp-Posting-Host: autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu