Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.

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From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:37

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In article <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
 > We were NOT "storing up passwords" as some users have suggested.  Rather, 
 > since *WE* are just as concerned about security as other people apparently
 > are, we set up our system so that it would FTP TO the users home site and
 > place files there, rather than allowing them to connect freely to our
 > machines using FTP.

Eh.  Possibly a stupid question.  But how do you ftp to the users home site
without storing the password of that users home site?
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl

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Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
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