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From: dce@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD login - logging in as root
Message-ID: <289@quacky.mips.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 21:44:00 EST
Article-I.D.: quacky.289
Posted: Sun Apr 12 21:44:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Apr-87 00:39:18 EST
References: <274@quacky.mips.UUCP> <434@haddock.UUCP>
Reply-To: dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott)
Distribution: world
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <434@haddock.UUCP> wolfgang@haddock.ISC.COM.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
>In article <274@quacky.mips.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
a bunch of really stupid, useless drivel.
>
>Yea, I'll bet that login never gets called. Getty probably reads

Sorry, but that's not it. I looked at the code and the check is in
login.

In reality, the person from DEC was right. The machine in question was
a virgin machine, which meant that it had no root password. Because of
this, login just passed over that part and went on to the secure tty
check, which proved to be false, and the connection was closed.

Sorry to have bothered everyone. We can now get back to the discussion
of why it is silly to force people to have mixed case passwords.
-- 
David Elliott		{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!dce