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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: problems with att multiple-machine approach?
Message-ID: <6722@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 17:07:55 GMT
References: <1988Sep23.105347.652@lsuc.uucp> <2300@att.ATT.COM> <1988Sep29.210829.29073@lsuc.uucp> <1988Oct3.115720.2175@ateng.ateng.com>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1988Oct3.115720.2175@ateng.ateng.com> chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>...which solves nothing.  If I (ateng) have a UUCP login on att, then I
>can change my nodename to uunet and then use the 'ateng' login.  Presto,
>I've logged in successfully and picked up uunet's mail.


HDB uucp knows how to check LOGNAME against the entries in the Permissions
file.  If you give each machine its own login name and password it is
possible to detect the nodename/logname mismatch.


Les Mikesell