Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!rpp386!pigs!haugj From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Annonymous uucp (was: Remote reject failure) Keywords: HDB SysV R3.1.2 annonymous UUCP 386/ix ISC Message-ID: <238@pigs.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 16:14:59 GMT References: <749@mccc.UUCP> <218@pigs.UUCP> <1988Aug13.185324.1409@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <323@occrsh.ATT.COM> <209@alobar.ATT.COM> Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) Distribution: na Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas Lines: 16 In article <209@alobar.ATT.COM> grs@alobar.UUCP (Gregg Siegfried) writes: [ speaking of setting up a HDB system to allow anonymous uucp and how overriding the NOSTRANGER mechanism can be done. ] ]Note that this is greatly reducing the builtin HDB security, but judicious ]use of the Permissions file can help make up for it. anonymous uucp by its very nature is insecure. you have to use indirect methods to restore any kind of security to the system. for example, to prevent a specific system from contacting you, force a callback in the USERFILE (v7 uucp) and then mark the time in L.sys as Never. -- jfh@rpp386.uucp (The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers) "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity" -- Hanlon's Razor