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- From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
- Subject: Re: Hack.exe
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.201928.9869@unlv.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov21.110530.22022@novell.com> <1992Nov23.151958.19631@sci34hub.sci.com> <1992Nov23.185956.15240@novell.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:19:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.185956.15240@novell.com> donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.151958.19631@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov21.110530.22022@novell.com> donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
- >>The problem that arises here is: what do you do when it's *necessary*
- >>to break in?
- >
- >Yes, this is an important consideration, just as it is for safes and
- >locked doors. I doubt many people would buy a safe that had a
- >"hidden" way to open the safe without the combination, though, and i
- >don't think many people buying NetWare would want similar features in
- >NetWare. (Although i suppose we should ask safe owners or NetWare
- >administrators that have had to break in about that...)
-
- I don't think that NetWare needs a back door either. Any competant
- technician, given full physical access and knowledge of one of the
- "reset password" NLM's should be able to restore the system as it
- exists now. It just isn't something that needs to be be built in,
- because it's already there.
-
- BTW, in case you haven't guessed from my posts, I do work for a Novell
- Reseller, and NW 3.11 is my favorite way to network PC's. I'm
- satisfied with the current level of security, combined with Novell's
- continued updates to keep hack.exe etc. from working.
- --
- Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
-