Summary - what is dop?

From: Steve Grocott <sgrocott_at_macan.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:37:03 -0500

Thanks to:

Matt Moore
Parris Wood
Joe Gallun



Turns out dop is the program that runs when you run programs like
dxaccount from the CDE desktop, and it asks if you want to run it as
root, as long as you know the password. Apparently prior to 4.0C, you
could overflow a buffer and become root w/out the password.

Thanks Folks!

Steve

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Received on Wed Dec 23 1998 - 17:38:20 NZDT