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- From: richard@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Begg)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: System "pleasure.com"
- Message-ID: <richard.712552748@mulgulgum>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 03:19:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes:
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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:
- |>
- |>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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- On *HIS* host maybe, but how is supposed to do it on anybody elses machine
- without a password?
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- Richard Begg (richard@asis.unimelb.edu.au)
- Admin Systems and Info Services - University of Melbourne.
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