Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!manta!budden From: budden@manta.NOSC.MIL (Rex A. Buddenberg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: IP based authentication of hosts Summary: False assumption Message-ID: <779@manta.NOSC.MIL> Date: 29 Apr 89 01:57:04 GMT References: <376@ists.ists.ca> <29416@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1989Apr17.213712.5631@utzoo.uucp> <291@ctycal.UUCP> Reply-To: budden@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Rex A. Buddenberg) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 7 In article <291@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.COM (Terry Ingoldsby) writes: > >necessarily have to satisfy any particular distribution). Protect both >files, so only privileged processes can read them (if you can't >trust superusers, your security is shot anyway). Each side of the > Jerry Whitworth was a superuser.