Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Is uunet a security hole?
Message-ID: <339@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 5 Jan 89 03:45:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: ists.339
References: <10420@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <381@ispi.UUCP>
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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In article <10420@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, jfh@rpp386.dallas.tx.us (The Beach Bum) writes:
> Well, this is exactly what happened here today.  Below are the log
> entries from an aborted attempt:
> 
> ...
> uucp br549 (12/27-15:42) yls XQT DENIED (uucp -C /usr/spool/uucppublic/* br549!/usr/spool/uucppublic )

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Note that the intruder was not very bright:                              |
No uucp that I know of will expand *                                     |

Mike.

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