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Article #236Re: System "pleasure.com"
From: Richard Begg
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:19
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:19
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gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes: |In article <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith) writes: |>In article <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes: |>)In article <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes: |> |>Wait a minute...if I log in to pleasure.com and ask the sysadmin to put a |>file in my account here, how is he going to get into my account here without |>divulging my password? Or am I misunderstanding what's happening? |> | If the sysadmin is running Unix, a simple chown, chgrp make it yours, |remember the super user can go anywhere and do anything without others |passwords. On *HIS* host maybe, but how is supposed to do it on anybody elses machine without a password? -- Richard Begg (richard@asis.unimelb.edu.au) Admin Systems and Info Services - University of Melbourne.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel!mulgulgum!richard From: richard@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Begg) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: System "pleasure.com" Message-ID: <richard.712552748@mulgulgum> Date: 31 Jul 92 03:19:08 GMT References: <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU Lines: 20