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I have discovered that a user who has a blank GECOS field in the passwd file under RedHat 4.0 (Colgate) is unable to change passwords. Running the passwd command goes like this: [user@host user]$ passwd Password: [entry of old passwd] New password: [entry of new passwd] [user@host user]$ echo $! 1 [user@host user]$ Setting the name field in the GECOS seems to solve this problem. [mod: While

Question, there are the teardrop, ping of death, DoS and a host of other forms of attacks. While all of the research that I have been doing concerning another form of an attack.... I became sorta stumped on an idea... is there anywhere.... a description on what to expect or what happenes during any one of these or other attacks listed somewhere? If so, could someone please direct me in that