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rlogind(8)
Systems Affected:SCO Unix Version ?
Problem: If you rlogin to SCO Unix form a trusted hosts (one in /etc/hosts.equiv), you can get root privileges without a passwd if your home directory does not exists. I suspect that any reason for the automatic login to fail would cause the same problem. Usually rlogin logs the users in directly to his home directory. But if the home directory does not exists it will fail ("Cannot chdir to ..."), and give a "login:" promt. However, whatever is typed here, including root, will success without a "Password:" required.
Solution:

Aleph One / aleph1@underground.org
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