Re: RE: bin/22595: telnetd tricked into using arbitrary peer ip

From: Matt Dillon (dillon@earth.backplane.com)
Date: 07/23/01 

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:57:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

:
:<<On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:54:55 -0700 (PDT), Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> said:
:
:> All very nice, guys, but not realistic. Only FreeBSD uses an API.
:
:Erm, no, wrong.
:
:SVR4 has an API. This API is standardized as a part of the Austin
:Group process.
:
:-GAWollman

    Fine.. then if you want to get all the third party program authors to
    use a magic API, be my guest. Could it be, no... it couldn't...
    all those programs couldn't just not *know* about the 'Austin Group
    process' could they? That's criminal! Oops, oh well so much for
    that!

    Even ssh, about the closest third party program to BSD as there ever
    was, doesn't use an API call for lastlog. It does for utmp, sort-of,
    but not for lastlog. Bzzzt.

                                            -Matt

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