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In article <64632@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes:
>In article <janet.712298382@dunnart> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:
>>So?  If you wanted this sysadmin to ftp to your account you would still have
>>to give them your password.
>
>   No, you are missing the point, the users give joe sysadmin an FTP request
>which is probably batched by the sysadmin (similar to a firewall concept)
>the requests are carried out and the files are given the proper ownerships
>and placed in the proper user accounts on the system (at least that is how
>I read it). Remember joe superuser can do anything to anyone's account
>without their password.
>

Nope. Joe Superuser from foo.bar.com cannot do anything to anyone's
account on _my_ systems without their password. This is what appears to be
happening. Jim Luser from ubudweiser.edu requests that a file stored on
foo.bar.com be ftp'd _to_ his account on ubudweiser.edu when available. At a
later time, foo.bar.com ftp's the file to ubudweiser.edu and deposits it in
Jim Luser's account. Now, how does this get accomplished without Luser
giving away his password on ubudweiser.edu?

I'm not sure if this is what happens in the case of pleasure.com, but that
_appears_ to be what is happening, and it hasn't been denied, but they do
deny storing passwords.

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