Bugtraq: Re: RedHat 6.1 /and others/ PAM

[thegnome () NMRC ORG (Simple Nomad)]

Maybe I should restate. The sploit as it stands didn't work, and even
using expect, pty, etc didn't work. Still showing up in syslog on RH 6.1,
can someone else confirm/deny?

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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Simple Nomad wrote:
>
> > Trying to "echo PASSWORD | su ACCOUNT" will elicit a response of
> > "standard in must be a tty..." therefore the sploit would stop on the
> > first word in the list as if it was the correct password. Therefore I fail
> > to see the exact sploit here. I tried this on a stock RH 6.1 machine.
> Use a pseudoterminal. Expect is your friend.
>
> --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
> "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."