[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat open to backdoor password

[MadHat]

Christopher Jones wrote:
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> Randy Seibert wrote:
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> > FYI
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> So if it is an account with a backdoor password, can't the account just be
> removed.     If so which account is  it.    Better yet can you just go in
> and change the password yourself.

My understanding is that the account isn't a "real" account.  It is in
the software.  This program is a set of CGIs for managing the LVS.  The
account is in the CGIs as a log in, not an account in the /etc/passwd (a
"real" account).

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%_=split';','2e;hac;40;not;64;ju;66; Perl ;68;st a;6f;ker;75;her';
print map $_{unpack "H2",$_}, split //,
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