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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:56:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) 
Message-ID:  <200002181556.KAA86357@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200002180743.JAA26529@gratis.grondar.za>
References:  <20000218062947.B0DDE1CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <peter@netplex.com.au> <200002180743.JAA26529@gratis.grondar.za>

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<<On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:43:03 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:

> o A username may only be checked $number times per $timeperiod;
>   after that, _all_ answers are silently converted to "no".

Easier: a username may only be checked by a process running as $uid
or by root.

> ... etc. There are possibilities for DoS attacks, but the daemon
> talks only to a Unix Domain Socket, so finding the perp is easy.

And what happens when the daemon is dead, has crashed, or was never
started?

-GAWollman

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