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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!dold
- From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
- Subject: Re: Breaking into Unix via modem
- References: <1993Jan1.120845.21400@netcom.com>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.235348.299@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:53:48 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- From article <1993Jan1.120845.21400@netcom.com>, by teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger):
- > In article <1992Dec31.221739.10281@unislc.uucp> dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold) writes:
- >>From article <1992Dec30.025955.8707@candle.uucp>, by root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian):
-
- >>> : Someone just told me that there is a way to break into a Unix box by
-
- >>If the modem is not properly configured to drop Carrier Detect when the
-
- > But your illustration is a badly administered system. The premise of the
- > original implies that one could break into ALL UNIX systems doing as the
- > original post described. This is just not the case as you have illustrated
- > by your case of a poorly installed modem.
-
- I intended for that to be the point.
- Hayes-compatible modems are not configured to follow carrier detect by
- default. A properly configured modem will.
- A stab in the dark question of "Is it possible..." deserves an answer that
- could apply at a site that is not well versed in administartion.
- I may have misread the inflection, but I thought that an answer at this
- level might have been exactly what the poster was looking for.
-
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- Clarence A Dold - dold@unislc.slc.Unisys.COM
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