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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU ("would rather be skiing ...")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Task to task decnet problem
- Message-ID: <01GQZA5M14IQ00CXCF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:22:42 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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- Carl J Lydick, CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU, writes:
-
- >In article <1dkkscINNptf@manuel.anu.edu.au>, bear@nuc.anu.edu.au (Bernhard
- > Fabricius) writes:
- >=A very simple (but not very elegant) way of doing this would involve letting
- >=the "4.7" nodes' menu system send a mail-message to a special PCX account on
- >=the "5.4-1" node. A low-prio background job on the "5.4-1" node then checks (at
- >=regular intervals) if there is any new mail for the PCX account and runs PCX
- >=with the requested file-name when there is. (You could put the requested
- >=file-name in the "Subject" field of the mail-message).
- [...]
- >=This is quick and dirty, but very secure. (And your users need never know...)
- >
- >You've *GOT* to be kidding. Anybody with TMPMBX priv and knowledge of the
- >MAIL-11 protocol can forge network mail.
-
- In the VMS V5.5-2 release notes there is a mention that the outgoing
- mail-11 agent turns on SYSPRV before sending mail. Section 2.8.7. This is
- a new feature in VMS V5.5-2.
-
- MAIL now enables system privileges when it opens a DECnet connection
- to a remote mail server. The system manager can restrict outgoing
- access on the mail server object by using the following NCP command:
- [...]
- This command prevents unauthorized users from placing connections on
- the mail server object.
-
- Note that it doesn't come 'out of the box' this way -- it'll have to be secured
- at each site. (At least, that's how I read the release notes).
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
-
-