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Article #237Re: System "pleasure.com"
From: Brad Hards
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:23
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:23
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In article <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) 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. You've missed the point. If you ask the sysadmin of System X to put a file on your account on system Y, either sysadmin of X must have your password on System Y, or must have sysadmin type permissions on Y.
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!sserve!hards4@ee.adfa.oz.au From: hards4@ee.adfa.oz.au (Brad Hards) Subject: Re: System "pleasure.com" Message-ID: <1992Jul31.012319.9902@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Organization: ADFA Vortex References: <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:23:19 GMT Lines: 12