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Re: Alas, for Xt

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Mon Aug 26 09:55:17 1996

To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, holes@MIT.EDU, moties@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:22:03 EDT."
             <9608261322.AA21887@portnoy.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:55:14 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>


perhaps I am missing something?

it seems to me that the easiest "attack" on an Athena workstation is

Athena% tellme root

I doubt that anyone would bother trying to exploit security holes to
get root access.

mike

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