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Re: AZSTARNET DOESN"T DELIVER

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From: Mark Beeson
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 00:00
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Pinky (pinky@primenet.com) wrote:

Learn from this, grasshopper.

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

% cd
% chmod -R go-w .

// 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.)

--Mark
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From: mark@nin.com (Mark Beeson)
Subject: Re: AZSTARNET DOESN"T DELIVER
Date: 1995/08/16
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