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Article #163Re: unhappy about overloading finger
From: Nelson Minar
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:18
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:18
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In article <dank.711867106@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) writes:
>nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
>>A far more common way for accounts to be cracked is for someone to
>>steal your YP password file
>With Sun's latest patches, YP is supposed to be fairly secure;
>nobody can get your passwd map that you don't want to.
Did Sun provide patches for my Ultrix machines, my Dynix boxes, and my
stupid NeXT machines? How about patches to the bugs that probably
exist in NeXT's netinfo? And how about patches to the other devious
ways people can think to coerce password files out of YP?
I think it's safer to assume your password file is world readable.
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nelson@reed.edu \/ Love under will
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!ogicse!reed!nelson From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger Message-ID: <1992Jul23.051821.3648@reed.edu> Date: 23 Jul 92 05:18:21 GMT References: <199207230140.AA18677@fnord.wang.com> <1992Jul23.032058.3292@reed.edu> <dank.711867106@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR Lines: 16