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Subject: Re: sendmail -C: Known? Patches? (AIX 4.1.5)
From: Joe Loiacono <jloiacon @ csc . com>
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 08:24:20 -0400
To: Nerijus Krukauskas <nerutis @ mail . lbank . lt>
Cc: "'DI. Dr. Klaus Kusche'" <Klaus . Kusche @ OOE . GV . AT>, "'firewalls @ greatcircle . com'" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>
References: <01BCA313 . 1ADC90E0 @ nerutis . aac . lbank . lt>

Fails on Solaris 2.5 also.

Joe

Nerijus Krukauskas wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
>   This doesn't work on AIX 4.2. I've tried the same "/etc/security/passwd" and get "Permission denied".
> 
> ----------
> From:   DI. Dr. Klaus Kusche
> Sent:   1997 m. Rugpjutis 6 d. 18:07
> To:     BUGTRAQ @
 NETSPACE .
 ORG
> Subject:        sendmail -C: Known? Patches? (AIX 4.1.5)
> 
> On several not-so-official WWW pages, I found a hint that
> 
> /usr/lib/sendmail -C <any-file-you-want-to-read>
> 
> produces "interesting" output.
> 
> I tried that on our AIX 4.1.5 (as an ordinary user!) with
> "/etc/security/passwd", and it indeed displayed all the
> shadow passwords.
> 
> I checked IBM's and CERT's archives about it and found nothing.
> 
> Questions:
> 1.) Is the problem known?
> 2.) Does IBM have a fix for it?
> 3.) Is it fixed in the latest (non-IBM) sendmail releases?
> 
> DI. Dr. Klaus Kusche
> Oberoesterreichische Landesregierung / Government of Upper Austria
> Rechenzentrum / Computing Centre
> Smail: Kaerntnerstrasse 16, A-4020 Linz, Austria (Europe)
> Phone: +43 732 7720 - 3394   Fax: +43 732 7720 - 3198
> Email: Klaus .
 Kusche @
 ooe .
 gv .
 at

-- 
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