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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Implications of recent virus (Trojan Horse) attack
Keywords: virus security
Message-ID: <1723@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 11 Nov 88 19:48:03 GMT
References: <1698@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <2151@ficc.uu.net> <8845@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14465@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: sean@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Sean McLinden)
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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>In article <8845@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>Try the following on your favorite remote 4BSD-based system:
>	rlogin host -l ''

Or, to keep someone else from doing this, remove lines like:

::0:0::

from your password file. Most Sun systems have this as a default (stupid!).
The alternative is to fix your login prograns which you might not be able
to do with a binary license. Or, you could run MACH (Version 3 will have
NFS).

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory