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Re: Alex - NFS/FTP Filesystems

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From: Vincent.Cate
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:36
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 cdvarn@m003.mystech.com (Chris Varner) wrot:
>The bright side is that it doesn't work anyway -- actually doesn't have a
>_prayer_ of working; and no, I copied it rather than executing it.. :-)

I sent him email asking why he would say "it doesn't have a 
prayer of working" and he idicated I missunderstood the meaning
of his post.

What he means (in case anyone else was confused also) is that 
everyone probably looks at the script before they run it.  I 
expect that is true.  I agree that  running some script off
the net as root without knowing anything about the person or looking
at the script is a dangerous thing.  

In any case, let me assure people  that for many machine types it
really is possible to just run a script and set up a new fileserver
that gives you access to FTP files.

   -- Vince
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From: Vincent.Cate@cs.cmu.edu
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Subject: Re: Alex - NFS/FTP Filesystems
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:36:22 -0500
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