For mgetty users with non-trusted shell logins

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:22:12 +0100

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Hi,

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:04:12AM +0100, l41484@alfa.ist.utl.pt wrote:
> >       - you do not have untrusted shell account users which may want to
> >         DoS you or use your modems to dial out.
> 
> I know this seems obvious, but there are dumb people out there. And these,
> will probably cry outloud and deny login acesss imediately if they are not
> vulnerable. So maybe u should also say here "People which provide login
> acess through modems connected to terminal servers?"

Basically, this IS the "rlogin" trick.

gert
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