SCO OpenServer & filePro permissions

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:

>So does it matter what I set filepro's password to? I never knew it got
>installed with a password, much less a password that expires??
>Strange......

Users without passwords or with weak passwords that have login shells,
(e.g. /bin/sh, /bin/bash, etc.) are frequently used by crackers to gain
shell access to systems where they can then exploit vulnerabilities to gain
root access.  I probably see a half-dozen of this type of crack every year
where the cracker gained access through poorly designed web tools such as
webmin's usermin, or via php exploits of user's personal web pages in the
$HOME/public_html directories.

Bill
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