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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:36:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: inetd security hole?
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In-Reply-To: <13013671.965751302190.JavaMail.imail@neon.excite.com>; from BHeckel@excite.com on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:15:01AM -0700

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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