4.0 Enhanced Security & root/field accts

Ian! D. Allen [CGL] idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Thu Sep 13 16:03:38 AEST 1990


In article <48811 at cmcl2.NYU.EDU> rosenblg at cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Gary J.
Rosenblum) writes:
>Background - Ultrix 4.0 installed, ENHANCED security enabled.
>	(Using the auth database).
>
>The way it is distributed, the root and field accounts both have
>uid 0, gid 1.  Problem is, when you set the password for root, 
>field gets set the same, and vice-versa.  This is due to the uid
>being the key into the database.  This is not "fatal", but it might
>introduce problems to the non-wary ranging from passwords seemingly 
>changing, to a security hole.

Oh dear.  Does this mean I can't have different uucp logins using
the same uucp uid?  Will they all have to have the same password?
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
 [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada



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