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From: wittmann@engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Secure.com
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.155651.577@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 20:56:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.142604.14418@cica.indiana.edu>
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
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In article <1991Jun18.142604.14418@cica.indiana.edu> will@ogre (William Sadler) writes:
>Did anyone see yesterday's InfoWorld?  Cringely on pg. 110 mentions
>that there is a program floating around called secure.com that can
>open up the bindery on 386 servers and let someone change the supervisor
>password.  Hmmm.... maybe I should hold off on that upgrade.
>
>Will
>--

This is reported every so often (or some program claiming to do the
same thing).  I wouldn't hold off on an upgrade due to obscure possible
security holes (that in the past have turned out not to exist).

Art

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