Subject: Re: bash problem 2
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/13/2000 10:27:06
smb@research.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
> /etc/shells was a response to a real problem: ftp to accounts with
> non-standard shells but widely-known passwords. For example, back in the days
> when it was created, lots of folks ran uucp, and lots of other folks knew the
> uucp password. They could then ftp in as uucp, and have full access to the
> file system. /etc/shells prevents that.
Was that what prompted /etc/shells? I thought it was to prevent
someone from walking up to a logged in terminal and typing: "chshell
/tmp/haha".
-wolfgang
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