[5324] in bugtraq
Re: msql access control
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (thoth@PURPLEFROG.COM)
Thu Oct 2 20:59:58 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:19:00 -0400
Reply-To: thoth@PURPLEFROG.COM
From: thoth@PURPLEFROG.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:40:06 EDT."
<Pine.SCO.3.96.970927205737.5992C-100000@jwt>
"John W. Temples" <john@KUWAIT.NET> ,in message <Pine.SCO.3.96.970927205737.599
2C-100000@jwt>, wrote:
> 2) The other form of authentication used is hostname. The msql server
> does a lookup on the IP address of the client, but does not
> subsequently do a lookup of the resulting hostname to verify it.
nospoof on
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Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us
http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/
