Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh
From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Who dat?
Message-ID: <4366@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 88 16:21:12 GMT
References: <199@stca77.stc.oz> <2310@rtech.rtech.com> <3789@rpp386.UUCP> <51@minya.UUCP> <14931@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <4909@watdcsu.waterlo
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <4909@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi) writes:
>Maybe a server can securely verify the userid of a client by requiring
>the client to create a setuid file with name *and* *contents* specified
>by the server?
>-- 
>I am not David Canzi, my name is.

or perhaps, require the file be created with only one link?  and with
a current last file modified/accessed/inode-changed collection of times?

- john.
--
I don't live in a desert, my name does ;-)
-- 
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