From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 28 21:19:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06420 for security-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06407 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08170; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:19:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: John Dowdal cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, JbHunt , "[Mario1-]" Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, John Dowdal wrote: =)Forward this junk to abuse@erols.com, and try calling 703-321-8000, or =)888-EROL-NET or 1-800-EROLS-PC [descreasing likeliness of helping]. If =)you call, be extremely agressive about getting to a higher-level person. =)Consider mentioning severe legal problems if they fail to fence in the =)hacker. I'll try but some of these ISPs take like 3 weeks to respond even if you mention legal action. They don't think you can do anything to them because they are out of state. =)Keep in mind that you only have a .signature with the erols account, so it =)may be bogus. That's true too since we only know that is the ip number he is using for his ppp session and it's non-static. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]