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Re: inetd security hole?
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: inetd security hole?
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:36:02 -0400
- References: <13013671.965751302190.JavaMail.imail@neon.excite.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Bob Heckel wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestion, Rob but I still need the Guest account to allow
>anonymous NT shares (for my non-Cygwin enlightened coworkers) to certain
>directories on my W2K box. I'll just leave Guest out of /etc/passwd for
>now.
>
>The thing that worried me originally was that "dropbox" shares are common on
>Windoze machines and I only discovered the hole by accident. Unfortunately
>the inetd documentation doesn't mention the issue.
Perhaps you would like to contribute some wording for the inetd documentation
which describes the problem.
cgf
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