On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:11:04PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Peter Cavender wrote:
> >
> > Hack the source for login. Not too hard. I've customized mingetty
> > and login on RedHat. I can help if you need. What distro you running?
>
> Eeuw. Unfortunately, since /bin/login is one of the main
> cracker target files, this will always cause my security
> checks to show a false positive because it will not match
> the RPM checksums.
>
> Sounds like an opportunity for a configuration option in a
> future release of login..
>
> RH 6.2.
How about editing the source from a source RPM? After rebuilding
the source RPM, you've got both a patch to submit to the maintainer, and
a working version that should match your (new) RPM checksum checks.
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