I have been trying to login as guest but I have not been able to find out how users are doing this.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Royce Souther <[email protected]> wrote: > I double checked there is no guest account but I did a grep for guest in > /etc/ and found that a temporary guest account was created then deleted. > > *r...@amdx4home[~] #grep guest /etc/* > /etc/at.deny:guest > /etc/bash_completion:# of Ubuntu's (and Debian's? :() inner > weirdness? :) -- David (hanska-guest) > grep: /etc/blkid.tab: No such file or directory > /etc/group-:guest:x:123: > /etc/gshadow-:guest:!:: > /etc/passwd-:guest:x:115:123:Guest,,,:/tmp/guest-home.EUt4Kx:/bin/bash > /etc/shadow-:guest:*:14892:0:99999:7::: > * > Check the times for the files* > r...@amdx4home[~] #ll /etc/passwd* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K 2010-10-09 21:09 /etc/passwd > -rw------- 1 root root 2.0K 2010-10-09 20:30 /etc/passwd- > * > > Some how users have found a way to automatically create a guest account > that is deleted when they log out. > I am continuing to search Google but so far I have not found any > information about this great new Ubuntu feature that lets users bypass the > security system as setup by the root user. > > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Royce Souther <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just found out that anonymous users can login to Ubuntu system even if >> they do not have an account. They login to Ubuntu 9.10 as user *guest*but >> there is no such account. >> >> What the hell? This is a very bad security hole. >> How is this possible? >> How can I stop it? >> >> -- >> Easy, fast GUI development. >> http://PerlQt.wikidot.com >> > > > > -- > Easy, fast GUI development. > http://PerlQt.wikidot.com > -- Easy, fast GUI development. http://PerlQt.wikidot.com
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