My guide to fascist syslogging (or how I caught the internet worm)
Lawrence V. Cipriani
lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM
Fri Dec 2 23:36:04 AEST 1988
In article <1988Nov30.170027.15960 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>But be careful that your logs are secure. It is a verifiable fact that
>people sometimes type passwords instead of login names, due to slow response
>or confusion or etc.
Good point. In the login logging I wrote the login name is recorded only if
it is a legal login name, other wise "unknown" is recorded. This is done for
precisely the reason you gave.
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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH,
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