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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:59:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it>
To:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Cc:        terry@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Login hole
Message-ID:  <199508171459.QAA00714@strider.ibenet.it>
In-Reply-To: <9508171314.AA03564@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Aug 17, 95 07:14:13 am

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Hello.

Quoting from Sean Kelly (Thu Aug 17 15:14:13 1995):
...
> in /.  Some of my users find this behavior convenient ... if the NFS
> server for their home directories is down, they can still read mail.

Yes,  it's  ok, it's not a security hole, as a normal user can do
no more harm this way than (s)he can do loggin  in  with  his/her
usual home.

Bye,
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Piero Serini                                            Via Giambologna, 1 
<Piero@Free.IT>                                     I 20136 Milano - ITALY



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