Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] new ssh worm?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:08:33
Message-Id: 200407272108.02486.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] new ssh worm? by Ard Righ
1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 09:02 pm, Ard Righ wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 10:33, Marc-Eric Dupuis wrote:
3 > > I have a guest account on my fresh gentoo install and the only server
4 > > here is sshd:
5 > >
6 > > baal@artsucks baal $ grep guest /etc/passwd
7 > > guest:x:405:100:guest:/dev/null:/dev/null
8 >
9 > Perhaps we should 'bug' it, and see what the Dev comments come back as
10 > ? I was under the impression that 'guest' was a legacy account for
11 > Samba, since SMB users try the 'guest' share, while just browsing
12 > between machines ?
13
14 many baselayout system accounts wont get trimmed until GLEP 27 is pushed
15 through
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17 in this case, guest would get moved to samba once we see GLEP 27 added
18 -mike
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