Re: BAFFELED ??#@# !! CONFUSED !!#@@!!!!!

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From: David Barr
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:19

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In article <1992Nov12.141902.5402@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Massimo Cotrozzi) writes:
>probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
>
>>pretty trivial to accomplish this. Basically I could send you mail from
>>root on your machine without ever having logged in or been near that 
>>machine.
>
>>James

>Even if I installed tcp wrapper ?

You spawn sendmail out of inetd?  How would you disable forgeries without
affecting legitimate mail connections?

--Dave
-- 
System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu

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