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Re: Security flaw... kindda!

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 12:49 am, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

% sudo niutil -createprop . /users/root passwd "*"

You're logged-in as an Administration user. Therefore you have total
power over the box and there are any number of ways of getting root.
Try doing the above command when you're logged-in as a normal user.

Simon Slavin
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Simon Slavin Fylde College Room C11
Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster
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