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Re: PPP security hole?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Chown)
Sat Oct 14 11:04:34 1995
From: Pete Chown <Pete.Chown@dale.dircon.co.uk>
To: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 20:57:01 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951011160548.11730C-100000@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Nick Kralevich" at Oct 11, 95 04:14:44 pm
Nick Kralevich writes:
>Summary: The current pppd, as installed by slackware and other
>distributions, could allow a user to become another computer on the network.
Wow, so if I run pppd I might turn into a computer? That sounds like
the worst security hole I've ever come across... :-)
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