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  • /etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.

    If not, open a terminal and type: cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.

    To test the login, from a terminal, type su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from /etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Type whoami and make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.




  • I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.

    If the original guy had just published “CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven’t already”, the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.

    It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn’t need the hype