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Re: PServer authentication


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: PServer authentication
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:42:17 -0400 (EDT)

Mike Castle writes:
> 
> I was always under the impression the those using OpenBSD were doing so for
> security reasons.  And pserver is far from secure!

As long as all the users have shell accounts on the server, a typical
pserver installation won't allow them to do anything they couldn't do
from the shell account.  pserver is only a security problem when you
want to allow access to untrusted users.

-Larry Jones

He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more than he does. -- Calvin



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