[OS X TeX] OT: effective Macintosh Trojan in the wild

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 8 mai 05 à 19:14, Aaron Jackson a écrit :

> The whole reason for a clamav user is strictly for UNIX security  
> purposes.  Basically, you don't want a process to run with root  
> privileges unless absolutely necessary.  Also along the lines of  
> UNIX security, a proper implementation should NEVER allow the  
> clamav user to login i.e. there should be no valid password  
> associated with the clamav user.  I would assume the people at  
> apple understand this and made it so.  I'm not going to worry about  
> this...

The clamav user created by clamXav has shell /sbin/nologin (as  
revealed by NetInfo Manager), thus I assume this means this user  
can't login.

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