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From: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Irresponsibility (Was: Security problem on UNIX PC's)
Message-ID: <218@zorch.UU.NET>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 21:34:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: zorch.218
Posted: Mon Sep 28 21:34:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Oct-87 04:42:37 EDT
References: <54@quincy.UUCP> <149@manta.UUCP> <209@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Organization: At Home; Modesto, CA
Lines: 24
Keywords: security, root, problem, unix-pc
Summary: a suggestion

In article <209@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <149@manta.UUCP> brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes:
>>[Flame deleted]
>
>[Counter-flame also deleted]

Emotionalism aside, the basic point that Karl and Brant collectively made is
that it *is* important for those of us who are (now, after the fire sale :-)
sysadmins to have this information, but it is irresponsible to just randomly
toss it around for all to see.

Suggestion:  the larger Usenet around us has a security mailing list, that is
moderated and is joined by mailing a request from the root account of each
given machine.  Surely this is trivial to implement, and is nowhere near as
open as even a moderated group.  I'm willing to support this from my machine;
it won't be blindingly fast, but I am connected to uunet and talk to it twice
daily.  Mail me if you are interested.

I know that *I* want to know about these holes.

        \scott
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