Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: HDB uucp security hole ?
Message-ID: <520@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 01:45:03 GMT
References: <116@iwfap.ATT.COM> <11730@codas.att.com> <3976@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <3976@umix.cc.umich.edu>, honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
> in svr3, the "sendthem" strings are opaque unless the invoker has read
> access to the Systems file.
                ^_________ ucase from peter?  is this a first :-) ?
> 	peter

It appears that uucico uses the read availability of whichever
Systems file is used by the transfer: Systems or Systems.cico
(pointed to by Sysfiles).  On our machine, one file is readable
and the other is not, which drove me crazy with the seemingly
random visibility of the sendthem strings.  Peter has undoubtedly
caused a great many "Aha, so *that's* what is going on." out there.
Thanks, Peter.

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Steve Friedl   V-Systems, Inc.   "Yes, I'm jeff@unh's brother"
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