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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: rlogin limitations (was: Login limit not honored by rlogin)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.151521.2050@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:15:21 GMT
- References: <246025DE02SEP92231718@TGV.COM>
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- In article <246025DE02SEP92231718@TGV.COM>, LUNDIN@urvax.urich.edu (John Lundin Jr) writes:
- rlogin discussion deleted
- >
- >rlogin and ftp also ignore password expiration.
-
- This is correct. This is an acknowledged flaw in LOGINOUT. It is not a bug,
- simple an insolvable problem. How do you force a noninteractive user to update
- his/her password? The same exists with proxy and non-proxy logins (ie DIR
- NODE"USER PASSWORD"::) and, I believe, BATCH jobs (help).
-
- In otherwords, the problem is not unique to rlogin or ftp, but rather indemic
- with LOGINOUT.
-
- QUESTION: How can you log on to a machine and not show up in a show users, or
- even be readily identifiable in a show system? Less than a third of the
- systems I have surveyed have closed this door, so I shan't discuss it. But it
- exists. This is the same sort of problem, which DEC is only now finding a cure
- for.
- >
- >John Lundin - U of Richmond - lundin@urvax.urich.edu
- >"Immature programmers imitate, mature programmers steal"
- >
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