inetd security hole?

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Bob Heckel wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestion, Rob but I still need the Guest account to allow
>anonymous NT shares (for my non-Cygwin enlightened coworkers) to certain
>directories on my W2K box.  I'll just leave Guest out of /etc/passwd for
>now.
>
>The thing that worried me originally was that "dropbox" shares are common on
>Windoze machines and I only discovered the hole by accident.  Unfortunately
>the inetd documentation doesn't mention the issue.

Perhaps you would like to contribute some wording for the inetd documentation
which describes the problem.

cgf

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