Re: Terminal security in SCO Openserver

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.comREMOVE)
Date: 06/05/03


Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 04:57:38 GMT

In article <2960878.1054777712@dbforums.com>,
brhunt <member30725@dbforums.com> wrote:
>
>JP,

>No, not exact. The testing was done by a co-worker of mine.
>He can log in fine using root, but gets the 'port in use...'
>message when using any other login ID. It sounded like a
>security issue to me.

>I will try to get a verbatim response posted here by the weekend.

I'm guessing that the port has been disabled for normal use
because of the problems with the old broken terminal. If you get
too many errors or even too many line transitions, the port will be
shut off by the OS.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com


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