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- From: rick@msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Security?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.191559.21914@msc.cornell.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:15:59 GMT
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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- Right from "info":
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- "How to Set Up NIS Client Files to Use NIS Services"
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- "Edit the /etc/hosts.equiv file to add a single line, with only the +
- (plus) character on it. This allows anyone to log on to the machine
- because all further entries are retrieved from NIS rather than the
- local file."
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- This is both factually incorrect and fabulously dangerous.
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- |Rick Cochran 607-255-7223 rick@msc.cornell.edu|
- |Cornell Materials Science Center rick@crnlmsc2.bitnet|
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- |Rick Cochran 607-255-7223 rick@msc.cornell.edu|
- |Cornell Materials Science Center rick@crnlmsc2.bitnet|
- |E20 Clark Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 cornell!msc.cornell.edu!rick|
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