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Article #1074Re: Hacker hits VMS
From: Tony Li
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1988 20:09
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1988 20:09
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In article <923@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward) writes:
Does anyone know if this is a REAL security hole in VMS or just the
usual
1) failure to change default password(s) on sys, maint, user, userp
accounts as shipped from DEC.
or
2) autologins left activated by local sys manager.
or
3) other equivalent act of stupidity.
Yes, this is the result of a real hole. Do you recall the V4.4
SECURESHR bug?
Tony Li - USC University Computing Services "Fene mele kiki bobo"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!sargas.usc.edu!tli From: tli@sargas.usc.edu (Tony Li) Newsgroups: misc.headlines,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Hacker hits VMS Message-ID: <7755@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 19 Mar 88 20:09:39 GMT References: <3749@mtgzz.UUCP> <923@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: tli@sargas.usc.edu (Tony Li) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 17 Keywords: DEC, Chaos Computer Club