.netrc

[George Robbins]

In article <1990Mar10.181943.23169 at smsc.sony.com> dce at Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
> In article <1990Mar10.143413.16539 at eddie.mit.edu> shawn at eddie.mit.edu (Shawn F. Mckay) writes:
> 
> How much easier is it to get someone's .netrc file than to get
> someone's L.sys file, which also has passwords in it?  In both cases
> the file is protected, though with the .netrc file, many (all?)
> versions of ftp will not even try to use the file if it is readable or
> writable by group/other.

A random sampling of .netrc files will be readable and have the passwords
of "user accounts".  Even if a L.sys file is readable, it contains only
the "uucp" passwords which almost always grant only the limited access that
the remote system has via uucp, usually a public directory and not much
else.

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