win95 share attack ... ;)

[clengacher at smcky.com]

Obviously, it's a bit extreme to say simply not to share. :-)
This is only one component of what should be a multiple component security
design.
I'd say, "Don't share unless you know what you're doing." ;-)

Casey

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Collier-Brown [SMTP:David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com]
> Sent:	Friday, October 13, 2000 7:42 AM
> To:	Michael Glauche
> Cc:	samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject:	Re: win95 share attack ... ;)
> 
> > Michael Glauche wrote:
> > 
> > in case you don't allready know that you should not share
> > data on a win9x/me system:
> > 
> > http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/sa_05.htm
> 
> 	And this makes it easy to sequentially guess
> 	all the characters in a password (;-))
> 
> --dave
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