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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
- Message-ID: <6807@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:37:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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- In article <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
- > We were NOT "storing up passwords" as some users have suggested. Rather,
- > since *WE* are just as concerned about security as other people apparently
- > are, we set up our system so that it would FTP TO the users home site and
- > place files there, rather than allowing them to connect freely to our
- > machines using FTP.
-
- Eh. Possibly a stupid question. But how do you ftp to the users home site
- without storing the password of that users home site?
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