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Re: ncsa security problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wmperry@spry.com)
Thu Apr 13 17:30:01 1995

From: wmperry@spry.com
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 10:50 PDT
To: "Gintaras Richard Gircys (GG148)" <rich@oester.com>
Reply-to: wmperry@spry.com
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199504131625.JAA18282@kitty.oester.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

Gintaras Richard Gircys writes:
> list,
> 
> there have been quite a few security issue posting on ncsa recently, enough
> to make me think about switching to the cern server (especially since the
> ncsa people seem somewhat refractory about fixes, etc.).
> 
> has anyone looked at the cern code? is it better? to date, seems to me that
> ncsa is by far the leader over cern in problems.

  There shouldn't be any holes like the ones in the NCSA server at least.
Phillip went through the code right after the NCSA scare and couldn't find
any similar problems.

-Bill P.

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