Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!trillium!hjespersen From: hjespersen@trillium.waterloo.edu (Hans Jespersen) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: login security package Message-ID: <10062@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Nov 88 18:33:11 GMT References: <519@whizz.uucp> <185@loci.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: hjespersen@trillium.waterloo.edu (Hans Jespersen) Distribution: unix-pc Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 In article <185@loci.UUCP> clb@loci.UUCP (Charles Brunow) writes: > I know this guy and his software and I wouldn't touch it with > a stick. This stuff is developed (loosely interpreted) on a > xenix box and I recommend that you go through it very carefully > before you put on real Unix. I would hope that most people would go through code they pull off the net regardless of who wrote it. The easiest way to spread a worm/virus is by having others carry it for you. I would insist on source code and go through it carefully. I don't think this is paranoid, in fact, one can learn alot from looking at the junk that other people write ;-). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Jespersen | uunet!watmath!trillium!hjespersen University of Waterloo | " C language combines the power of assembly language Waterloo, Ontario | with the ease-of-use of assembly language."