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- From: zen@death.corp.sun.com (d)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: COPS bug? in dev.chk - here's a fix
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:22:29
- Message-ID: <ZEN.92Sep10182229@death.corp.sun.com>
- References: <1992Sep10.143408.517@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- <1992Sep11.003003.9474@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep11.003003.9474@tamsun.tamu.edu> steve@donald.tamu.edu (Steve Rikli) writes:
- > I spoke with the author of Cops, Dan Farmer, via email about this last
- > April...
- > [...]
- > He said this is what will be used in the next version. Speaking of which,
- > hmmmm?? ;-) Anyhow, I've put this fix in, and it does the Right Thing.
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- April? Has it been that long since the last release? Longer, you say?
- Sigh. Anyone want to give me a sabbatical? There's so much more I want
- to put in...
-
- > There was some question whether all unices actually treat '#' as comments,
- > but he didn't think it was a problem.
-
- Brings up another point -- people keep asking me if "#"'s are comments
- in .rhost files. They aren't, unless you're running a newer/more
- intelligent version of unix than most (I think 4.3+ does the right
- thing.) So if someone can masquerade their machine name as a pound
- sign, they're in. Just FYI.
-
- -- d
-
- p.s. sun nuked my division's travel budget, so I won't be at this
- security usenix. Sorry to all the people I told that I was going to
- eat, drink, and be merry with :-(
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