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From: John_Mansfield@emal.sprl.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield)
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
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References: <1991Mar14.011826.18836@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <18365@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM> <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 13:29:59 GMT

In article <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, 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

Although it is not foolpproof, there is a program that comes with the Telnet 
distribution called Telpass.  It lets you create a password file on your mac 
that will stop most people from getting in if you dont want them to.
This of course takes no account of malicious hackers.

Just my couple of cents worth.

John.