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Subject: Re: TS and stuff
From: David Schiffrin <dschiffrin @ ucsd . edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:08:48 -0800
To: avivi @ ibm . net (Avishai Avivi)
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

At 08:26 PM 1/14/96 GMT, Avishai  Avivi wrote:
>Guys,
>With-all-due-respect I think we should drop the discussion on all of the 
>various security levels there are out there... I truly believe (from 
>personal experience) that the less you discuss these things, the better off 
>you all are...  Besides I think the networking world has enough acronyms to 
>keep us guessing at. :-o

Agreed.


>Does anyone know of any good guidelines on how to build proxies, or where 
>one might be able to get his hands on a skeleton proxy, that is custimizable 
>enough?

Umm have you looked in the TIS sources?

>Also I have a problem some of you mentioned... While I'm the "cop" at my 
>organization as far as security is concerned (also known as "The anal 
>retentive networking dude") I do have superiors who do not understand what 
>is wrong in allowing rsh and such between segments (We are really paranoid). 
> So I took a source for rsh, and modified it a bit to include some security 
>oriented features (such as checking the username against a list of autorized 
>commands).   But I think I'm probably trying to re-invent the wheel.  Does 
>any of know of a source of secured services?


I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but in a previous life
I used a tool called sudo, as in su do, which restricted which things a
paticular user could do, and logged it too. not sure if I remember
correctly, but it may have had an option to authenticate for each 'do'....


hope this helps.

--Dave
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'cause she comes back." --B.B. King

David Schiffrin
dschiffrin @
 ucsd .
 edu



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