Re: [SLE] NIS, NIS+, Automount which combinations work

From: Paul W. Abrahams (abrahams_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/31/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:12:48 -0500

    On Friday 30 January 2004 8:01 pm, Art Fore wrote:

    > For awhile, we were getting worms from the Taiwan and India VPN on the
    > network, and if you shared a directory, you would get a worm within
    > about two minutes.

    Just curious: who were you sharing directories with that you picked up those
    worms? Was directory sharing really that open? I'm not familiar with VPN
    but I'm interested in knowing about the hazards.

    Paul Abrahams 

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