[13379] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.7L: zwrite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 30 19:26:06 1995
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 19:26:02 -0500
To: rvh@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
> I got a "faked" zephyr, sent by a friend claiming to be somebody
> else. How is this possible?
There are various ways this can be done, depending on what kinds of
access your friend has to the specific machines you are using, to your
account, or to the account of the person from which the zephyr claims
to be.
In general, people should have no access whatever. You might ask your
friend how it was done in this specific case. (In your case, I see
that you are logged in to a machine with many other users, which
allows various possibilities.) But...
> How can I tell if a zwrite is faked?
In general, if a zephyr is faked, it should appear with the word
UNAUTHENTIC prominently displayed on the zephyrgram.
Craig Fields
I/S DCNS Development
cfields@mit.edu
