Re: brute force

[alan () manawatu planet org nz (Alan Brown)]

On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Tom Fitzgerald wrote:

> I'm surprised you don't list uucpd, that's always been my favorite target
> for a password bruteforce (rexecd is easier, but it's disabled on more
> platforms than uucpd).

Decent uucpds supporting port 540 access have separate passwd files. :)

Taylor certainly has for at least 4 years. Its only drawback is that it's
not encrypted unless you add the code to do it yourself.

It caused us some grief when we switched to uucp-over-tcp for some stuff
until we RTFM. :)

AB