> From: Thierry Zoller [mailto:Thierry@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2007 07:52 > > GE> telnet -l "-froot" [hostname] > > Should we really consider this a BUG ? With all due respect, this > reads, smells and probably tastes like a backdoor It's a bug. I recall it being found and fixed in AIX many years ago. Embarassing for Sun that it's still in Solaris, though. It's actually caused by a "feature" of login; the bug is in programs that exec login and pass "-froot" to it, and in preserving this feature of login at all. A quick Google search found Usenet postings about it from 1994; I'm sure it was known well before then. -- Michael Wojcik Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus
