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Re: noboby with a shell !!



On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Well yes it could :) As long as the user has no valid password it's not very
> usefull. Take a look into the /etc/shadow and in the second field you'll find
> ! or * indicating that this user has a invalid password. See man 5 shadow.

That's hardly true.  If an attacker could somehow create an ssh
authorized_keys file, they could log in without a password.

noah

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