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Article #701Re: They forget rusers, was Re: reasons for disable fingerd
From: matthew green
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:54
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:54
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dejesus@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes: >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)? Um.. rusers with an IP number works fine.. at least it does for me. Matt..
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mrgreen From: mrgreen@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) Subject: Re: They forget rusers, was Re: reasons for disable fingerd Message-ID: <mrgreen.724182856@munagin> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia References: <n051Hgpb2b@atlantis.psu.edu> <1992Dec2.162425.27877@telebit.com> <1992Dec9.173938.8706@nntp.hut.fi> <Bz3y3E.Jyu@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:54:16 GMT Lines: 21