muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) (06/23/91)
After running this version of cops I saw the following warning which made
me quite nervous:
Warning! Passwd file, line 2, user stroot has uid == 0 and is not root
stroot:QXCAyBt4zMwoE:0:1:The root of all evil:/:/bin/csh
Warning! Passwd file, line 21, no password:
df::3271:78:Dan Farmer:/usr/users/df:/usr/local/bin/tcsh
User df and stroot do not exist in my /etc/passwd, but I tought something
very tricky was going on. Especially since we do have /usr/local/bin/tcsh
installed, and "The root of all evil" occurs in /etc/passwd too.
Until I saw the author of cops is Dan Farmer.
Is this an intended joke or what?
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Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fys.ruu.nl
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl
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3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) (06/23/91)
In article <muts.677621435@fysaq>, muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes: > After running this version of cops I saw the following warning which made > me quite nervous: [...] > Is this an intended joke or what? No, the joke is on me :-) I accidently put in my test file in the post; as an alternate method of using other password files other than the system default, I let you put the following line (26, I think) in cops.cf: $GET_PASSWD = '/bin/cat passwd'; It should be commented out, or whatever you would like instead of /bin/cat passwd; it is intended for checking alternate password files, such as shadow pass, etc. I included my own test password file, which, of course, includes my name. Hope this clears things up; sorry... -- dan