Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, but there is no known way to force the ftpclient to do such
> things. The client doesn't accept any commands and any data it gets is,
> well, data, so it is not executed, just written to disk.
Well, there are a few exceptions, but they won't a
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
> Running an ftp client as root seems to be an exception to the rule
> about not running as root.
actually that "rule" isn't a general prohibition against doing anything
as root. it is advice about only running as root for system maintainence
tasks. upgrad
On 25 Feb 1998 22:47:23 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> > [..]
> > This is why I was asking about dselect | ftp, because if I'm root, and
> > I'm running ftp via dselect, then isn't this exactly what you're
> > telling me not to do?
>
> Yes, but there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> > The other way for someone to access your computer is by the programs
> > you run to access Internet services. For example, if you select a
> > link to a Postscript file and look at it using a viewer that allows
> > file operations, it could try to appen
On 22 Feb 1998 20:04:41 +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
>
> > What I'm trying to do is make my ppp connection as secure as possible,
> > and one of the first things I realized is that whenever I'm running
> > dselect, I'm root, and that I might be connected to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> What I'm trying to do is make my ppp connection as secure as possible,
> and one of the first things I realized is that whenever I'm running
> dselect, I'm root, and that I might be connected to the internet for
> long enough such that my ip address cou
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:28:06 +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
> > It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially
> > compromise root access.
> >
> > I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose
> > the powe
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially
> compromise root access.
>
> I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose
> the power of dselect by downloading all packages and package lists
>
Hi,
Does anyone know of a VMS/VAX emulator
J.
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Hi,
It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially
compromise root access.
I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose
the power of dselect by downloading all packages and package lists
individually, but I want to decrease the potential of ro
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