Disabling nidump wouldn't help, as this is NetInfo being a little too generous. You can also use, for example, niutil: niutil -read . /users/root You'll note nidump isn't setid-anything, so someone can simply copy it from another machine. Bryan On Sep 15, 2002 14:28, Dale Harris stated: > Basically any normal user can get a dump of the passwd file and attempt > brute force attacks on the encrypted passwds, it includes the root passwd. > > This problem has been around for well over a year, but Apple ignores it: > > http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2001/Jul/1001946.html > http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/211718 > > However Apple hasn't seemed to bother addressing it yet since it still persists > in OS X.2 (Jaguar). You'd think they might have taken the opportunity to fix > this problem with a new major release. > > This obviously isn't such a big problem when you are dealing with only > limited access desktop systems, but Xserve exists now, and I would think > it'd be a bigger concern. Course you could always chmod 700 nidump. > > -- > Dale Harris > rodmur@maybe.org > /.-) >
