COMMAND
MS Netware client
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Win '95
PROBLEM
Lauri Laupmaa reported following bug. There seems to be serious
security flaw in win95 dealing with novell netware passwords.
It's trivial to find netware password in win95 swap file by just
scanning the hard disk for USERNAME (with some disk editor). The
only solution Lauri have found is to disable virtual memory, but
this is not a SOLUTION, because lot of programs just do not work
without it... By default, this problem is also present in the
latest (July 96) release of NetWare Client32 for Windows 95.
SOLUTION
Unless you want to disable swap file, you can disabled it by
going into the Network control panel item, opening the "Novell
NetWare Client 32 Properties" dialogue, and disabling the "Cache
NetWare Password" option on the "Advanced Options" page.