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Bug 88 - Security hole in adduser/useradd tool
Summary: Security hole in adduser/useradd tool
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: basesystem
Version: 5.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1998-11-16 13:19 UTC by soucym
Modified: 2016-07-05 17:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1998-11-16 13:49:54 UTC
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Description soucym 1998-11-16 13:19:22 UTC 
When you add a user with 5.1 it appears to be breaking a
standard (discussed this with a long-time linux user) but
the big problem I found was when adding an account for
myself other than root my password showed up in
/etc/password file IN PLAIN VIEW! It was NOT encrypted until
I ran passwd on it. Then it was encrypted. This is a serious
bug that needs to be rectified due to ANYONE monitoring that
file (/etc/password) they would be able to get users
passwords. I mailed redhat and got a response to
come and post the bug here. So here it is.  Email me if
there is a patch out to fix this already, but I haven't
located one.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1998-11-16 13:49:59 UTC 
The -p option to adduser is to set the *encrypted* password;
it assumes whatever you give it is already encrypted. Notice
if you try to use whatever you specified to -p to login that
it won't work...
Comment 2 openshift-github-bot 2016-07-05 17:48:01 UTC 
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin

https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/962bcbc2400f6e66e951e61ba259e81a6036f1a2
fix issue#88 - generate unique cookie based on vtep

https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/c7a4777f9eb352bf9956a62803bbcd8fc9de9fde
Merge pull request #89 from rajatchopra/master

fix issue#88 - generate unique cookie based on vtep
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