MacOS X, MacOS X Server, and Darwin Local Denial Of Service ...

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Link: MacOS X, MacOS X Server, and Darwin Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20040101152631)

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Approved by arn

[ITR 81]

If this was discovered in OSX 10.0 does this even effect the current 10.3.2?
Because I doubt many still use OSX 10.0 or the public beta since they are pretty buggy to begin with.

[White Fire]

I'm personally wondering if anyone is actually going to try this out.

Anyone?

[MrMacMan]

I would... just tell me how...

That article made no sense to me... :o

[awulf]

Well it says there that it stuffs up when you make a really long password.

So I made a password 8,883 characters long.

And it does cause weird things to happen, it says it cannot change the password, but the old password doesn't work either.

I tried it on my own account, fast user switching doesn't work anymore, I cant authenticate no password related things to do with my account will work.
But it doesn't affect any of the other users, I still can SSH my self in as a different user.

Now I hope I can change my password back via root.

[Edit: I can change the password back to normal, and everything works again, apart from Fast User Switching thinks I'm 'Unknown']