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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Vulnerability in sourceforge.net

From: steve menard <smenard@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu Jul 22 2004 - 20:45:28 EDT

Dang a new Mandrake 10 is currenlty /bin/sh

grep
 [@rh8 ]$ grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
nfsnobody:x:65534:65534:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin

[@Mandrake10]$ grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:x:65534:65534:Nobody:/:/bin/sh
[@Mandrake9.2]$ grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:x:65534:65534:Nobody:/:/bin/sh

Anders B Jansson wrote:

>
> nobody:*:32767:32767:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
>
>
> Todd Towles wrote:
>
>> Does OpenBSD do that?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com
>> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Gregory A.
>> Gilliss
>> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:31 PM
>> To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
>> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Vulnerability in sourceforge.net
>>
>> Really...FreeBSD comes with user nobody set to /sbin/nologin out of the
>> box. Maybe they should have chosen a better host OS?
>>
>> G
>>
>> On or about 2004.07.22 07:49:53 +0000, Todd Towles
>> (toddtowles@brookshires.com) said:
>>
>>
>>> Sounds like they should have configured that page a bit
>>> different...made
>>
>>
>> it
>>
>>> run under a little less access...or said I say..it is a
>>> mis-configuration.
>>> =)
>>
>>
>>
>
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