Using UUCP under a BBS system???

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.chi.il.us
Mon Feb 12 06:52:13 AEST 1990


In article <511182 at nstar.UUCP> larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>The last time I looked at XBBS, it would only allow the spawning of
>external news software - and one would have to set up an account for 
>your users to access the mailer - which would leave the system open
>for security problems.

Can you explain why having an account per user would cause any security
problem?  I can understand wanting a mail front-end built into a bbs
for convenience but I don't see any advantage for security.

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us



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