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  1. From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
  2. Newsgroups: alt.sources
  3. Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
  4. Message-ID: <1990Sep29.175021.598@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
  5. Date: 29 Sep 90 17:50:21 GMT
  6.  
  7. glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:
  8.  
  9. >What about vendors deliberately putting trap-doors in their distributed 
  10. >binaries?
  11.  
  12. >We had a Dual Chapparal (68020 Sys V.2 with FFS) and after a long time (several
  13. >years) discovered that 'su' worked without a password provided the users
  14. >current directory was /etc! I think that this was left in so that engineers
  15. >doing on-sight servicing could become 'root' . . .
  16.  
  17. I'm appalled.  You should post this to comp.unix so as to properly
  18. blacken their name.
  19.