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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:51:34 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
Cc:        "Chris Lavin" <chrisl@bbs.justcompute.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wierdo situation!! 
Message-ID:  <9606171851.AA02726@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606171844.OAA01729@garion.hq.ferg.com>
References:  <199606171820.OAA09150@only.justcompute.com> <199606171844.OAA01729@garion.hq.ferg.com>

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<<On Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:44:41 -0400, Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> said:

> in /etc/ttys with

> ttyd1	"/usr/bin/telnet {othermachine}" unknown on secure

>  They _WILL_ see a login from the other machine... and the security 
> implications of using a rsh to accomplish this as init runs as root are tooo 
> scary. 

The security implications of allowing random users to get a root shell
on the gateway machine by typing `C-] ! RET' are even scarier...

-GAWollman

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