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Re: [LI] root access from old sendmail boxes

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Subject: Re: [LI] root access from old sendmail boxes
From: Sathya Rangaswamy <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:05:11 -0600
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Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>
>
> Make hard link of /etc/passwd to /var/tmp/dead.letter

Now why would I want  to do that ?.  I do understand the  sendmail bug.
But if a hacker can get in and create the link  why even bother  linking,
might as well edit it
or am I missing somthing ?

>

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