Re: "Small" Bug - silly question again
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:15:43AM -0800, Alan P. Laudicina wrote:
> I started this thread and here is where I comment again. I see your above
> example and think of one of my own. A "script kiddy" gets ahold of a list
> of usernames and passwords of a machine at fakedomain.com. He is at the
> local university and needs a shell to telnet to the machine and use the
> illegally obtained login and passwords. A machine running The HURD is
> nearby...
I appreciate everyone's concern of the security issues, but I would
like to add a voice from the usually silent majority of people, who do
not usually dream about hacking into other people accounts. Is the
convenience of non-malicious users worth anything at all?
Here is a real life example. You come to visit another place, say to
a conference at a friendly university, and like all the other of 200
participants you want to telnet to your computer and read email from
time to time, send your preprint to a local printer etc... The local
sysadmin is too busy to create 200 new accounts and does not want to
create an anonymous account deemed as a security risk. A machine
running HURD which allows non-login shell on console is nearby...
Denis Kosygin
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