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From: rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Usenet Security
Message-ID: <3321@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: 26 Feb 88 22:57:35 GMT
References: <893@ima.ISC.COM> <15477@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Keywords: usenet uucp security access intruders

In article <15477@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>The security features of BNU/HDB are *THE* selling point, in my opinion. The
>4.3BSD UUCP is nearly the equal of HDB in many repects, and the newest version
>will be superior in many. But when it comes to security, HDB reigns surpreme
>and will for the forseeable future. Any site that plans to use UUCP and wants
>to be secure should be running HDB. 

older versions of HDB have a hole whereby clever hackers CAN manage to
get a shell.

honest

rob
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				william robertson
				rob@philabs.philips.com