Re: System "pleasure.com"

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From: Timothy Newsham
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 08:03

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In article <richard.712552748@mulgulgum> richard@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Begg) writes:
>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?

maybe its a sunos   ;)

>
>--
>Richard Begg (richard@asis.unimelb.edu.au)
>Admin Systems and Info Services - University of Melbourne.

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