As I said before it's moot anyway because I can sniff the packets off the ethernet. Don't be so sure that someone who plugs into your net can't steal your IP. What do you think happens if I assign a privileged machine's IP address to my box? I bet if I can get an arp reply out faster than you then I get your IP address. This shouldn't be too challenging, just write the code in DOS to shorten the code path. Besides, are you aware that many ethernet cards will let you program in the hardware address? You're naive if you think you've got everything locked up tight.
Gabriel Millerd wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > This is true. However note how you said "if the request for the map > > comes from a non-root user". How do you supposed the NIS server > > determines that you're "not a root user"? I'll tell you: ident. I can > > whip up an ident server on my NT box in two minutes that'll tell you I'm > > any user I want. This is not security. > > > Dont you have to break down the door of the NOC, put your NT box > on my lan an take my host off first? Why would it care waht your UID is if > your not a valid host to feed maps to. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
