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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!prism!gt5870c
- From: gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: System "pleasure.com"
- Message-ID: <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 20:51:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Universal Exports
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- In article <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith) writes:
- >In article <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes:
- >)In article <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes:
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- >Wait a minute...if I log in to pleasure.com and ask the sysadmin to put a
- >file in my account here, how is he going to get into my account here without
- >divulging my password? Or am I misunderstanding what's happening?
- >
- If the sysadmin is running Unix, a simple chown, chgrp make it yours,
- remember the super user can go anywhere and do anything without others
- passwords.
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