Sunday, July 6, 2014

Dissecting /etc/passwd

Discussing local file inclusion with with @pacohope and @kseniadmitrieva, it became evident that I have more than a few non-obvious things to say about the value of /etc/passwd when in the hands of an opportunistic adversary. It is available on most (all?) Unixes, yet it is rich in idiosyncrasy. I threw together my thoughts and put them here.

If you know of more interesting details, drop me a comment.

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