The Old New Thing

When people ask for security holes as features: Stealing passwords

May 4, 2005 May 4, 2005 05/4/05

Raymond Chen

Sometimes people ask for features that are such blatant security holes I don't know what they were thinking. Is there a way to get the current user's password? I have a program that does some stuff, then reboots the system, and I want to have the current user's password so I can log that user back in when I'm done, then my program can resume ...