🚀 go-pugleaf

mark@nin.com (Mark Beeson) writes:

>Pinky (pinky@primenet.com) wrote:

>Learn from this, grasshopper.

>// files appearing in my directory not of my origin,

>% cd
>% chmod -R go-w .

Learn from this slug, sysadmin. are *supposed* to set up shells for
shell users, especially when they say they offer a service that they
don`t. The bash shell wasn`t set up with the proper permissions to
begin with. Tell this to the phone support people, who couldn't
fix a simple typing mistake over the phone; to the non-existent person
who was overseeing their system at the time. Thank god it wasn`t a really
serious problem, cuz their system, according to them often goes unsupervised
and unwatched. 

I`d sure like to know how you got information about my azstarnet account
that was never posted by me. Did you have communications with their
staff about my account? Considering what I know about azstarnet staff,
I`d be real careful using their services.


>// easy access to system files, 

>Oh yes, those damn /bin programs that are so nasty.  Or /usr/ucb, I hear
>those are really security risks too.

>// abililty to use su command

>This is a viable command.  If you want to inherit another user's
>characteristics, you use su [-] [username].  Granted, most of the
>time it's used to become superuser, but still.  I suppose you're
>going to gripe about the fact that rlogin is enabled, as well?

>I suggest you read man pages before going off on the security or
>your perceived notion of the lack thereof of a specific site.  As
>it is, AZStarnet looks very secure. (Let's hope that Bob has made
>/tmp sticky, though.)

I really don't think that su should be available to users, since this
combined with a password file and a good cracker program could
wreak havoc. Considering azstarnets willingness to share customer information
with the public and guys like you, it doesn`t matter how good their
technical security is, they are not secure. Period. End of Argument.

>--Mark
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