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  1. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!psuvax1!schwartz
  3. From: schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
  4. Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
  5. In-Reply-To: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au's message of Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:47:38 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <Brrsn4.7sx@cs.psu.edu>
  7. Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: roke.cs.psu.edu
  9. References: <ggm.711690458@brolga>
  10. Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:05:49 GMT
  11. Lines: 7
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  13. ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
  14.    To cover ourselves, we are increasingly using callback checks to
  15.    have trace on who fingers us.
  16.  
  17. As long as you trust the other machine to tell you anything, why not
  18. require that they use RFC 931 style authentication?  
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