Implications of recent virus (Trojan Horse) attack

Sean McLinden sean at cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU
Sat Nov 12 05:48:03 AEST 1988


>In article <8845 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>Try the following on your favorite remote 4BSD-based system:
>	rlogin host -l ''

Or, to keep someone else from doing this, remove lines like:

::0:0::

from your password file. Most Sun systems have this as a default (stupid!).
The alternative is to fix your login prograns which you might not be able
to do with a binary license. Or, you could run MACH (Version 3 will have
NFS).

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory



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