From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 30 17:22:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18190 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 17:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA18169 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 17:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA14279 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:21:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA09499; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:08:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970531020825.GN62992@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 02:08:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's References: <19970530085744.UT50834@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 30, 1997 09:48:43 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Don Yuniskis wrote: > If each UUCP dialup account has a unique login and that is compromised, you > can tell exactly where the problem originated, can disable that *single* > account ... But that doesn't require distinct UIDs. (Forging UUCP mail is about as easy as forging SMTP mail, except for the latter, you never need a password at all.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)