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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: backdoor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.142124.9109@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1iioelINN2h8@news.umbc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:21:24 GMT
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- In article <1iioelINN2h8@news.umbc.edu> ac999212@umbc8.umbc.edu (ac999212) writes:
- >I was wondering because if a supervisor can install a backdoor to novell when you are
- >initially installing the server.
-
- Sure. It's called an account with supervisor privledges.
-
- > I seen my teacher put a backout.tss file the sys.
-
- Actually, that was probably put there by NetWare during the install; it's
- probably part of the TSS software (Transaction Storage System, or something
- like that). Backout != backdoor. Further, that'd be too obvious; a backdoor
- would involve deceit, and would be buried somewhere obscure.
-
-
- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
-