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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: <1729@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 13 Nov 88 15:03:50 GMT
References: <1698@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <2151@ficc.uu.net> <8845@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14465@mimsy.UUCP> <1723@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <445@auspex.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 <445@auspex.UUCP: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
::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!).
:
:Excuse me, but to what are you referring?  Most Sun systems have a line
:like
:
:	+::0:0:::
:
:as a default, but this is INequivalent to
:
:	::0:0::
:
Excuse ME, but the last four lines of my SunOS 4.0 distribution tape
password file are:

	+::0:0:::
	::0:0:::
	::0:0:::
	::0:0:::

NeXT?

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory