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 Message-ID: <19970531020825.GN62992@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 30, 1997 09:48:43 -0700 References: <19970530085744.UT50834@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com>
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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. ;-)
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