Re: Internet Worm

[perry () imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)]

Scott Schwartz says:
> | Wrong. Dangerously wrong. If you tried building some non-sun library
> | code on your system, your berkeley r commands might suddenly work
> | wrong. Sun did lots of monkeying with the relationship between the yp
> | library, the resolver library, and the r-commands.
>
> The kerberos versions of the r-cmds seem to work ok (and, apropos the
> origin of this thread, they address the authentication issue in a
> better way).  Anyone know if Perry's comments pertain to them?

They use a different authentication scheme, so no, the comments aren't
relevant.

Perry