Annonymous uucp (was: Remote reject failure)

Joe Bob Willie haugj at pigs.UUCP
Wed Aug 17 02:14:59 AEST 1988


In article <209 at alobar.ATT.COM> grs at 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 at rpp386.uucp	(The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers)
     "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity"
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