full-disclosure - Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:58:46 -0500
From: Cody Robertson <cody@...khost.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

On 11/17/2011 12:50 PM, Mario Vilas wrote:
> The guest account has no password, but it's not possible to login 
> remotely with ssh.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Dave <mrx@...pergander.org.uk 
> <mailto:mrx@...pergander.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     What is the password for this guest account?
>     Is the password random generated?
>
>     Is remote access of any kind enabled by default for this guest
>     account?
>
>     In what way is the guest account different from any of the half
>     dozen or so other accounts(with the obvious exception of access
>     rights)
>     created during a default Ubuntu install?
>
>     How insecure is it really?
>
>     I am not an Ubuntu expert so these are genuine questions, I am far
>     to busy to research this at this time so I ask these questions in
>     the hope
>     than an Ubuntu Guru comes forth and either allays all my/your/our
>     fears(if they exist) or scares me/us into action.
>
>     regards
>     Dave
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> "There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights 
> the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When 
> the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to 
> become the people."
>
>
>
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I haven't played with it but it appears they ship the guest account with 
a AppArmor profile to help lock down the session but it's just a normal 
user. I wonder even with the AppArmor stuff if the recent lightdm 
vulnerability would work.

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1262-1/

-Cody

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