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- From: rm113@cl.cam.ac.uk (Rupert Moss-Eccardt)
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP server in IBM's TCP/IP package?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.145427.18265@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Summary: There is a secure way to do it
- Keywords: /etc/passwd
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- Reply-To: RM113@phx.cam.ac.uk (Rupert Moss-Eccardt)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
- References: <1992Nov2.151555.14022@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1992Nov06.031443.17839@utoday.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:54:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov06.031443.17839@utoday.com> ehall@cmpny.sscnet.ucla.edu (Eric Hall) writes:
- >> Does IBM's TCP/IP package for OS/2 have any server support in it? That is,
-
- >Yeah, it has a telnet server. The security's not enough for you to run a BBS with however. It only
- >allows a single userid and password for the telnet connect.
-
- >Eric Hall
- >Dir, East Coast Labs
- >Network Computing Magazine
- >516-562-5288
-
- If you replace LOGIN.EXE with LOGINUNX.EXE in the TCPIP\BIN directory and place
- a real password file in TCPIP\ETC\PASSWD then you get proper, crypt-based
- userids and passwords. Good eh?
-