Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!psych
From: psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R. Crispin - Psychology)
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Mar14.011826.18836@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <18365@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 14:15:09 GMT
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A caution if you use NCSA Telnet to allow FTP to the MAC. YOU CANNOT RESTRICT
ACCESS IN ANY WAY. People could FTP to your MAC and GET or DELETE or PUT
anything, anywhere. I wanted to do this since my machine has our usergroups
disk attached and I wanted to let people have access to the files on it.
I couldn't stop people from having access to everything else as well. This
I felt was too dangereous. People could copy software they have no write to
or could look at confidential files or could dump all kinds of virii onto
my system.

If anyone has a solution other than turning off all the other disks or using
someother protection scheme I would be interested in hearing from you.

Richard Crispin              Phone:    (519)888-4781
Dept. of Psychology          EMail:    psych@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca 
University of Waterloo                 psych@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1