Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me?

Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz ((no email))
Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:19:35 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Chris Woods shaped the electrons to say...
>3 other people here have the !root password, and we all now know about
>this bug. Granted, that's not the solution to the real problem, but it
>should not be a risk at all if your password is secure.

You don't need a password, or even an account. You send it at the login:
prompt before you login.

Personally I honestly wouldn't consider this a bug, but a feature. But one
person's feature...

-MZ

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