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From: jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: Dialup: a simpler way to call other computers via cu(1)
Message-ID: <50@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 06:32:18 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.50
Posted: Mon Jan 13 06:32:18 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jan-86 04:42:02 EST
References: <271@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Keywords: phone, cu, dial

The "dialup" program posted to net.sources stores unencrypted passwords for
other systems in the user's home directory.  As a systems admin, I consider
this a major security problem (relying as it does ONLY on Unix file protection
to maintain confidentiality).  I would not allow this program on my systems!