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From: tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: slide - a command to make you root
Message-ID: <382@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 11:09:01 EST
Article-I.D.: picuxa.382
Posted: Wed Nov 18 11:09:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 18:34:48 EST
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Organization: Trenton Home for the Criminally Insane
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Keywords: handy, time-saving
Summary: a defense


In defense of slide -- I have an AT&T 3B2/300 which I use for some
development and testing.  I have "normal" logins which I use in
the testing, and occasionally I need to become superuser to fix
something.  If slide means I don't have to key in the password, fine.

I have not tested slide yet (have not even read the README), but
I seem to recall from the header of the article that the author
mentions (1) using this on a 3B1, which is probably used more often
as a personal (i.e. single-user) computer, and (2) setting up
group execute permissions to restrict access to slide.

Like anything else -- if you don't like it, don't use it.  If the 
intent of all the flames was to point out a security loophole for
production systems, it could have been accomplished  *much* more
politely.
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Tom Gillespie  ( ...ihnp4!picuxa!tgr) | (attmail!tgillespie) (201) 952-1178
AT&T/EDS Product Integration Center  299 Jefferson Rd. Parsippany NJ 07054

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