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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: .netrc
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.181943.23169@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 10 Mar 90 18:19:43 GMT
References: <45473@lanl.gov> <1990Mar10.143413.16539@eddie.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Mar10.143413.16539@eddie.mit.edu> shawn@eddie.mit.edu (Shawn F. Mckay) writes:
>Probably much easier than picking up the peices after someone snarfs
>your .netrc file and has passwords to everything in the world.

How much easier is it to get someone's .netrc file than to get
someone's L.sys file, which also has passwords in it?  In both cases
the file is protected, though with the .netrc file, many (all?)
versions of ftp will not even try to use the file if it is readable or
writable by group/other.

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David Elliott
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