Re: Possible SunOS 5.5.1 sulogin vulnerability

>Possible hole in sulogin here? Under Solaris 2.5.1 (sparc & x86),
>executing /sbin/sulogin from an unprivileged user account dumps you
>into what appears to be single-user mode with an ugly warning message
>without prompting for the root password. You don't find this with
>earlier versions of Solaris (2.5 and lower).
>
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>sol251% /sbin/sulogin
>
>*** NO ENTRY FOR root IN PASSWORD FILE! ***
>
>Entering System Maintenance Mode
>
>$
>
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>sol25% /sbin/sulogin
>
>Type Ctrl-d to proceed with normal startup,
>(or give root password for system maintenance):

Yeah, but you're still yourself (id = your ID). I think that the only
real harm is that your prompt is changed. Basically, you get dumped
into a Bourne shell with a confusing warning.

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Doug Hughes                                     Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin                                Auburn University
                        doug_at_eng.auburn.edu