Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!rti!trt From: trt@rti.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: a thought about UNIX login security Message-ID: <1116@rti.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 09:34:30 EDT Article-I.D.: rti.1116 Posted: Thu Jun 23 09:34:30 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jun-83 01:10:52 EDT Lines: 8 Oh yuck, 'joe' was a normal user. My example was wrong. (I do not have any original records, so I reconstructed it from my own /etc/passwd, but was careless in doing it.) Of course, there *are* systems with that kind of gaping hole. The point of the story is the same in either case: It is almost impossible to restrict something as general as the shell. Tom Truscott