Re: Terminal security in SCO Openserver

From: brhunt (member30725_at_dbforums.com)
Date: 06/05/03 

Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:48:32 +0000

JP,

No, not exact. The testing was done by a co-worker of mine. He can log
in fine using root, but gets the 'port in use...' message when using any
other login ID. It sounded like a security issue to me.

I will try to get a verbatim response posted here by the weekend.

Thanks.

Bryan Hunt 

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