haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) (08/16/88)
In article <209@alobar.ATT.COM> grs@alobar.UUCP (Gregg Siegfried) writes:
[ speaking of setting up a HDB system to allow anonymous uucp and how
overriding the NOSTRANGER mechanism can be done. ]
]Note that this is greatly reducing the builtin HDB security, but judicious
]use of the Permissions file can help make up for it.
anonymous uucp by its very nature is insecure. you have to use indirect
methods to restore any kind of security to the system. for example, to
prevent a specific system from contacting you, force a callback in the
USERFILE (v7 uucp) and then mark the time in L.sys as Never.
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