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Article #4050Re: Unix Password Hacker
From: David S. Hayes
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 05:20
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 05:20
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In article <161200005@uiucdcsb>, kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> Given the network address of
> a lisp workstation you can read, delete, modify files from
> anywhere in world via ftp.
Actually, you can't do this all that easily. Symbolics,
among others, has recognized this failing. The machine can be
instructed to accept connections only from "trusted" machines,
that is, machines known in advance to it. Normally, that will be
only the other workstations on the office LAN.
--
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Unix Password Hacker Message-ID: <680@hqda-ai.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 88 05:20:27 GMT References: <731@ddsw1.UUCP> <161200005@uiucdcsb> Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon Lines: 14 Summary: Lisp Machines that don't have passwords