Re: bin owning files

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From: 99700000
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1988 04:48

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But, but, but...    entries in hosts.equiv mean that the machines
are under the same administration, hence all names are protected
across all machines.  If you have a machine on which someone can
masquerade as bin then that someone can masquerade as anybody else,
so you've got lots worse problems than merely bin.

haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu
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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bin owning files
Keywords: bin, root, /etc/hosts.equiv
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Date: 17 Nov 88 04:48:55 GMT
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