HEADS UP: rpc.yppasswdd working again

[Mark Murray]

Martin Blapp writes:
> 
> Small, but important message for NIS users.
> 
> All users who had problems with NIS should rebuild their
> world. Long outstanding problems have been fixed and
> rpc.yppasswdd allows root again to change passwords
> on ypmaster without knowledge of the users password.

Does this not create a vulnerability?

Example: Bad Guy sets up a personal workstation with himself as root
and steals an IP address from the machine he just switched off. Now
he can change passwords on the server at will.

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Mark Murray
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