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- From: hards4@ee.adfa.oz.au (Brad Hards)
- Subject: Re: System "pleasure.com"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.012319.9902@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: ADFA Vortex
- References: <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:23:19 GMT
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- In article <64629@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) 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.
-
- You've missed the point. If you ask the sysadmin of System X to put a file
- on your account on system Y, either sysadmin of X must have your password
- on System Y, or must have sysadmin type permissions on Y.
-