userOsa can overwrite passwd and shadow

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In article <7tvq0m$gu1$1@hendrix.postino.com>,
Danny Aldham <danny@hendrix.postino.com> wrote:
>Any user may overwrite any file with group auth (i.e. /etc/shadow,
>/etc/passwd) using /etc/sysadm.d/bin/userOsa.

My quick fix for this is to edit userOsa and replace the string
"debug.log" with "/dev/null".
-- 
John W. Temples, III

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