On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Damir Rajnovic wrote:
> Joe can lock his PC but he can't stop me from changing IP address of my
> PC (to Joe's address, of course). I know that this requires a little
> technical knowledge but that way I can prank Joe without leaving my
> desk.
Actually, you might want to open a raw socket and place Joe's MAC address
in your ether headers while he's getting some coffee.
"It's in the arp table, it has to be him!"
The only way to have accountability is with authentication-dependent
service access. No (secure) password, no service. Think Kerberos, or
something similar.
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Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering
Mindspring Enterprises tlewis @
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