full-disclosure - Undeletable user account.

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Date: Wed Jan  4 20:26:00 2006
From: trains at doctorunix.com (trains@...torunix.com)
Subject: Undeletable user account.

Quoting James Bower <hando311@...mail.com>:

> Hi all, one of my servers has recently been compromised.  No suprise 
> but the hacker created himself a user account.  The problem is that I 
> can't seem to delete the account.  The account is not part of any 
> group.  When you look at the account it and go to Member Of it 
> doesn't show anything.  When I try to delete it as the local admin I

You might find an interesting answer here:

http://neworder.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=13948

I have used the exploit described therein and it does work as advertised.

t

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