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From: mccurdy@ucselx.sdsu.edu (mccurdy m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.152659.22187@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 15:26:59 GMT
References: <18365@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM> <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
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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
>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.
>

	Yes, they could do anything. Send you a new system. Whatever. Anyway,
you can run the TELPASS program which I believe, is available with the
distribution or, not having that, place the command PASSFILE = "" in config.tel
This will cause an incoming FTP connection to be prompted for a username and
then fail on the password. Or, you could "turn off" FTP access from the menu,
but that requires you to do it every time you start up NCSA ...

-mike mccurdy
san diego state university

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