Is this a good Idea? WAS Re: root passwd change on 3b2/310
Tom Reingold
tr at samadams.princeton.edu
Wed Aug 1 03:23:43 AEST 1990
In article <294 at alix.UUCP> isolated at alix.UUCP (James D. Corder)
writes:
$ I was about to respawn to this question. Then it struck me:
$ How does one know if said poster is the SysAdmin? If he/she is then
$ I would have no problem giving out such information. Could a responce
$ to such cause the root [zero id] password to be changed on all the
$ 3B2s at BigWig U?
I don't think it's worthwhile to try to keep info on how to break in
secret. It won't work. So if I run a system and I know how it can be
broken, I may know how to prevent or watch for breakins.
I think our legal system is built this way. It's legal for me to tell
you how to make a bomb. It's illegal for you to set one off.
--
Tom Reingold
tr at samadams.princeton.edu
rutgers!princeton!samadams!tr
201-577-5814
"Brew strength depends upon the
amount of coffee used." -Black&Decker
More information about the Comp.sys.att
mailing list