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From: dennis@hpirs.HP.COM (Dennis D. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: HDB uucp security hole ?
Message-ID: <4210002@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 00:14:41 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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  On AT&T System V.2.1 uucp (HoneyDanBer) , the remote system's password is
  printed when using the -x option with a level higher than 3. 

  This is a very serious security hole. Have anybody else noticed this 
  problem and made a fix to it?


                                               Dennis D. Lee
				               Hewlett Packard
                                               hpda!hpirs!dennis