[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Lane Van Ingen") writes: > Looked at /etc/shadow, and (in fact) it doesn't have a password, so I was > wrong about that. > > Tried to use the login command to login directly log into postgres, but for > some reason could not do that on RHEL 4.0 either. So, like you said, I am > not certain that I have a vulnerability here at all, other than su-ing from > root.
I'm certain; you do NOT have a vulnerability there, if there is no password in /etc/shadow. (Well, barring stupidity like dramatic misconfiguration of PAM to accept logins without passwords :-).) -- (format nil "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "cbbrowne" "cbbrowne.com") http://linuxdatabases.info/info/finances.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #10. "I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum -- a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings