Re: question.....
Re: question.....
- Subject: Re: question.....
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:18:13 -0500
On 5/21/04 9:41 AM, "Nigel Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I get this one...because in its shipping form, anyone with an administrator
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> account can enable the root acount, and give it a password. This has always
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> bugged me, just not enough to really care, since it's not an evil type
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> thing. But part of the initial process of setting up the box should be
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> setting a root password, then re-disabling it. Well, unless disabling it
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> kills the password.
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It's worse than that...
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*Any* user with an administrator account can, with a bit of know-how, change
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the root password to whatever they want -- without knowing the original.
Right...that's what I said. But it's an easily preventable problem.
john
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