Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!rick From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is uunet a security hole? (change the topic,it isn't) Summary: interesting definition of safe Keywords: uucp logins security Message-ID: <44477@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: 8 Jan 89 05:22:19 GMT References: <10420@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <44465@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> <11687@netsys.COM> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 9 > account. Running with "nuucp" and no password is safe if you have your > Permissions file set up correctly. I don't consider it "safe" when any site that also has an entry in that sites Systems file can impersonate me. Do you call that safe? ---rick