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Re: is nobody a security hole?

On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> > nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh
> Yes, it would indeed be a good ideas to change nobody's home directory...
> I seem to faintly remember a ssh hack that used the fact that nobody's
> home directory was world-writeable. In any case, I think we're better safe
> than sorry. Any major objections out there?

Sorry for my usual "look at other Unices" blurb, but...

That's how they do it in BSDI (4.4BSD-Lite):
chaos:~$ egrep 'nobody|nonroot' /etc/passwd
nobody:*:32767:32766:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
nonroot:*:65534:32766:Non-root root user for NFS:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin

[where /sbin/nologin is basically:
echo 'This account is currently not available.'
exit 1
...after a long BSD copyright message;) ]

SunOS (4.2BSD):
pretzel:~> grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:*:65534:65534::/:

IRIX (SysV):
cholent:~> egrep 'nobody|noaccess' /etc/passwd
nobody:*:60001:60001:SVR4 nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
noaccess:*:60002:60002:uid no access:/dev/null:/dev/null
nobody:*:-2:-2:original nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null

[don't know how they can have two logins with the same name]

Solaris (SysV):
cs2:~> egrep 'nobody|noaccess' /etc/passwd
nobody:x:60001:60001:uid no body:/:
noaccess:x:60002:60002:uid no access:/:

Rasta,
Vadik.

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