[14604] in Athena Bugs
Re: Alas, for Xt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Aug 26 12:01:12 1996
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:01:07 -0400
To: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@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.
These are concerns for users and folks who maintain private athena
workstations, as well as the dialups.
The public workstation model certainly minimizes (but does not
eliminate) the damage that this sort of bug can do in a cluster, but
the Athena environment is more than just public workstations.
--jhawk
