Re: They forget rusers, was Re: reasons for disable fingerd

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From: Francisco X DeJesus
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:30

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In article <1992Dec9.173938.8706@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>In article <1992Dec2.162425.27877@telebit.com>, bjork@telebit (Steven Bjork) writes:
>>Those that disable finger often forget that nice rpc package
>>originating with a Big workstation vendor.
>
>and enabled by default on OS's by a couple of other vendors.
>
>>So even if they
>>disable finger, crackers could just run rusers.

Still, doesn't rusers (and rup, rlogin, rsh, etc) require a hostname? If
they don't work with IP addresses (they way finger/telnet can) then their
use is restricted if the machine you are trying to "probe" isn't registered.
Anyone know of a way around this (other than making a local entry in your
hosts file)?




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