Re: [cobalt-users] another question

["Robert Grimmett" <pageus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was able to lock down those holes through simple access control procedure
(yeah if someone figured out my personal id number from the 2 way pager and
the user and password that is sent cleartext they could get in.. (on top of
knowing the email address to send to)) :) anyway.. i have ti written, just
wondering really if anyone really knew why it would do something like that
(boost my load that high).. is there something witht eh MiPS proccessor?
thanks for the reply

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] another question


> I can write you something that would enable you to do this, if no one has
> anything canned for you.
>
> Remember that this will open some incredible security holes, though.
>
> Jeff
>
> At 02:31 PM 1/14/00  Robert Grimmett wrote:
> >Has anyone heard of an already written program that will allow me to send
> >commands to the system (as a specific user of course and limited in
> >commands) through an email.. On my old linux system i was using a hacked
> >copy of a mailing list generator (like majordomo but lighter).   Thie
worked
> >but was clunky and when i tried it on my raq2, it shto the load avg up to
15
> >for about 30 sec whenever it would proccess a command.  (even as simple
as a
> >ping -c 10 <ipaddr>)
>
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