Re: brute force
Alan Brown (alan@manawatu.planet.org.nz)
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:58:08 +1200
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Tom Fitzgerald wrote:
> I'm surprised you don't list uucpd, that's always been my favorite target
> for a password bruteforce (rexecd is easier, but it's disabled on more
> platforms than uucpd).
Decent uucpds supporting port 540 access have separate passwd files. :)
Taylor certainly has for at least 4 years. Its only drawback is that it's
not encrypted unless you add the code to do it yourself.
It caused us some grief when we switched to uucp-over-tcp for some stuff
until we RTFM. :)
AB