From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14420 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: feedback on AUTHINFO in qgnus-0.27 Date: 04 Mar 1998 20:38:20 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199803041938.UAA10371@bombur2.uio.no> References: <199802271558.KAA00020@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153615 14844 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04820 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:44:15 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28574 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:39:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAN08671; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:14:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 04 Mar 1998 13:38:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00458 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:38:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3758 invoked by uid 504); 4 Mar 1998 19:38:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3755 invoked from network); 4 Mar 1998 19:38:38 -0000 Original-Received: from pat.uio.no (6089@129.240.130.16) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 1998 19:38:37 -0000 Original-Received: from bombur2.uio.no (actually bombur2.uio.no [129.240.200.72]) by pat.uio.no with SMTP (PP); Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:38:24 +0100 Original-Received: by bombur2.uio.no ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:38:21 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "28 Feb 1998 06:45:26 +0100" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14420 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14420 Edward J. Sabol writes: >> I dunno. Why should programs police the behaviors of users? > > I dunno. Ask the authors of ftp, ncftp, Probably just to help the user discover his self-made problems. I think it makes sense that when only a few programs use a file, like an init file, they help the user catch security problems with that file. > rsh/rlogin/rcp, and ssh/slogin/scp. This is to avoid a security hole. These programs should check file permissions, owner, and maybe that it is a plain file. If my ~/.rhosts is world-writeable or owned by someone else, it may be because someone has broken in and added themselves to my ~/.rhosts file. -- Hallvard