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  2. From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  4. Subject: Re: BAFFELED ??#@# !! CONFUSED !!#@@!!!!!
  5. Message-ID: <lak1H$e_ua@atlantis.psu.edu>
  6. Date: 12 Nov 92 23:19:56 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov10.201503.6288@gw.wmich.edu> <1drec6INNmf3@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov12.141902.5402@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
  8. Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet)
  9. Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov12.141902.5402@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> cotrozzi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Massimo Cotrozzi) writes:
  13. >probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
  14. >
  15. >>pretty trivial to accomplish this. Basically I could send you mail from
  16. >>root on your machine without ever having logged in or been near that 
  17. >>machine.
  18. >
  19. >>James
  20.  
  21. >Even if I installed tcp wrapper ?
  22.  
  23. You spawn sendmail out of inetd?  How would you disable forgeries without
  24. affecting legitimate mail connections?
  25.  
  26. --Dave
  27. -- 
  28. System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu
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