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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.191357.29921@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 19:13:57 GMT
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psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R. Crispin - Psychology) writes:

>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.

This is false. The telpass program provided with NCSA Telnet gives you
a password file to do exactly this.

pr
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