> This looks like possibly the easiest root exploit ever discovered on a desktop OS Well there's always the classic "login -froot" bug [1]. Although, to be fa

> This looks like possibly the easiest root exploit ever discovered on a desktop OS Well there's always the classic "login -froot" bug [1]. Although, to be fair, you did say "desktop OS" and I'm not sure AIX exactly qualifies. [1] http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/testing/vulner/18.html http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/testing/vulner/18.html