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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 02:08:25 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uucp uid's
Message-ID:  <19970531020825.GN62992@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 30, 1997 09:48:43 -0700
References:  <19970530085744.UT50834@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com>

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As Don Yuniskis wrote:

> If each UUCP dialup account has a unique login and that is compromised, you
> can tell exactly where the problem originated, can disable that *single*
> account ...

But that doesn't require distinct UIDs.

(Forging UUCP mail is about as easy as forging SMTP mail, except for
the latter, you never need a password at all.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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