Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen
From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Subject: Re: 4.0 Enhanced Security & root/field accts
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.060338.7553@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: ultrix 4.0
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <48811@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 06:03:38 GMT
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In article <48811@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> rosenblg@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Gary J.
Rosenblum) writes:
>Background - Ultrix 4.0 installed, ENHANCED security enabled.
>	(Using the auth database).
>
>The way it is distributed, the root and field accounts both have
>uid 0, gid 1.  Problem is, when you set the password for root, 
>field gets set the same, and vice-versa.  This is due to the uid
>being the key into the database.  This is not "fatal", but it might
>introduce problems to the non-wary ranging from passwords seemingly 
>changing, to a security hole.

Oh dear.  Does this mean I can't have different uucp logins using
the same uucp uid?  Will they all have to have the same password?
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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