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Hi!

> > | If you can bind to low numbered ports, you can fake credentials for
> > | rsh or rlogin. From there, you can get to root on many machines
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> > I can do that from a Windows PC, if necessary spoofing packets from a
> > legitimate host. So?
> >
> > Anyone who doesn't disable or severely restrict the r-commands is begging
> > for trouble: *they* are the security holes here, not CNBS.
>
> I wish people would keep repeating that argument. There are plenty of
> environments where the r-utilities are perfectly safe, such as between
> hosts in a machine room, where the room has a lock, a burglar alarm,
> and random people can't just plug PCs into the network.

Ok, but in many other environments r* utilites are not okay, and as a
nice consequence being able to bind low port is not automaticaly
equivalent to root compromise.
Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org

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