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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ukma!fehr
- From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
- Subject: What to do about forgeries?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.103240.2922@ms.uky.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:32:40 GMT
- Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael
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- We have always run a system based upon trust: a single login,
- nuucp, for all of our nodes. Everyone has always behaved and
- no one has pretended to be another node to scarf up another
- node's mail. Now, we find that we are in need of more security
- but simply adding more logins doesn't appear to change anything:
- someone logging in under, say, xuucp still has access to the
- entire scope of the mail system. Obviously, we don't know
- squat since this seems to be a fairly elemental question, but
- how can we prevent a node from pretending to be another node?
- Or gaining access to mail it shouldn't get? Is it just a question
- of an after-the-fact check of xferstats? That doesn't really
- appear to be quite adequate.
-
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- Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>
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