darren duncan vemhhgdarrenduncannet 940 0200 102107 rafael garciasuarez wrote 20102007 darren duncan wrote running cd perl ti mtestinit oppwentt resulted immediate death insecure envpath running switch oppwentt line 22 begin failedcompilation aborted oppwentt line 68 well take ti added commandline localet test perl line needed pwentt actually harmful saw okay another try time blead used last time running cd perl mtestinit oppwentt resulted 12 etcpasswd max 25 n 25 perfect 0 failure oppwent test necessarily serious may fail due local password administration conventions example using nis local passwords test failure possible distributed password scheme cause failures pwent test compares 26 first entries etcpasswd results getpwuid getpwnam call finds matches suspects something wrong ok 1 necessarily serious run toppwentt ok 2 running perl toppwentt resulted thing appears nonserious according output said recall reading online sources leopard changed number things securitywise said recommend making changes pwent test test run public release leopard made public 5 days case relevant detail changed change would obscure darren duncan wed 06 aug 2008 061404 0700 testing blead seeds mac os x 105 leopard