Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Sunday 2005-03-13 at 21:06 -0600, Henry Tang wrote:

> I think the hack that sends out the email with shadow and passwd listing
> either has root access or shadow group access.  Becuase according to this
> below it shows that only user of shadow or root can read the file.  If the
> hacker has root, what is the purpose of getting the system config or shadow
> file via email.. I don't see a reason going through all that trouble.  So must
> be user gdm.

A reason to send an email could be because it was an automated attack.

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Cheers,
       Carlos