Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me?

Thomas Tornblom (Thomas.Tornblom@Nexus.SE)
Sun, 10 Sep 1995 23:28:13 +0200

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> From: "Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz" <megazone@livingston.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com, stpeters@netheaven.com,
> portmaster-users@livingston.com
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> Reply-To: "Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz" <megazone@livingston.com>
>
> 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...
>

Please enlighten us to why we should consider this a feature?

The analogy with the Suns console doesn't hold. If you send a break on
a sun console you would pop down into the prom monitor, from where you
could do all kinds of marvels. I assume that this is not the case with
this bug. Hell, a bug becomes a feature only after it is documented, I
haven't found any mentioning of it in the manual.

Thomas

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