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Re: [cobalt-security] Re: ADVISORY: shadow file vulnerability:cause & workaround
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Re: ADVISORY: shadow file vulnerability:cause & workaround
- From: Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:10:49 -0800
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
> Hi. Okay. Ran the recommended chmod on my shadow files since the this system
> was setup and all of the sites were imported with CMU some time ago.
> I downloaded the patch from Jeffs site...
> Fix for CMU security problem, as root do the following:
> $ wget ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/cmu/shadowfix.patch
> $ patch -p0 shadowfix.patch
> But when I run the command
> $ patch -p0 shadowfix.patch
I forgot one key character in the command line, it should read:
$ patch -p0 < shadowfix.patch
If you ran the first command you can just ctrl-c out of it.
Jeff-