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From: kap1@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (Dietrich Kappe)
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 04:59:42 GMT


In message <1991Mar15.191357.29921@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 
resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:

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

The idea is not to restrict access to a machine, but to restrict read/write/cd
permission to various directories on the machine.  Thus a malicious or
inexperienced user couldn't accidentally upload 30 meg of virus infected
programs to your hard disk.

--Dietrich--