Re: [LI] root access from old sendmail boxes

[Archan Paul <archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi hi!! really cooool. I have already tested it on some ........

Archan Paul
archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lateral Software Technology (Linux Lab), Chennai, India

Sathya Rangaswamy wrote:
> 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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> >
> >
> > 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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