Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!rutgers!ukma!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: hosts.equiv considered harmful (was Re: bin owning files) Message-ID: <13178@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 25 Nov 88 21:24:42 GMT References: <566@comdesign.CDI.COM> <5494@saturn.ucsc.edu> <185@bnr-fos.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 28 As quoted from <185@bnr-fos.UUCP> by hwt@bnr-public.uucp (Henry Troup): +--------------- | I just checked my SunOS 4.0 *distribution tape* hosts.equiv. The | file consists of "+\n". A quick RofTFM shows that this means | ***trust everyone*** Surprise! | | So- In light of the worm, and this, we should realize that out-of-the- | box systems are not well secured. +--------------- D*mned right they're not. See <13139@ncoast.UUCP> in news.sysadmin for the reason. The moral of that story is that the people who buy computers, and the people who run them, need to become aware that security isn't only for the Pentagon. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@. -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.