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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.175021.598@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 29 Sep 90 17:50:21 GMT
References: <1990Sep29.004107.17548@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:

>What about vendors deliberately putting trap-doors in their distributed 
>binaries?

>We had a Dual Chapparal (68020 Sys V.2 with FFS) and after a long time (several
>years) discovered that 'su' worked without a password provided the users
>current directory was /etc! I think that this was left in so that engineers
>doing on-sight servicing could become 'root' . . .

I'm appalled.  You should post this to comp.unix so as to properly
blacken their name.