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  15     <B>Craig McLure</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices] /ns ghost exploit">frostycoolslug at hotmail.com
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  19     <I>Thu Mar 14 22:24:01 PST 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>yeah, if the user has identified, then it is an obvious ghost, if the user
  35 hasn, then it is prolly a mistake.. then we come across access lists.. some
  36 ppl dont need to identify cause their host is in them.. could this be a
  37 prob?
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  40 &gt;<i>From: &quot;Mark Hetherington&quot; &lt;<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">mark at ctcp.net</A>&gt;
  41 </I>&gt;<i>Reply-To: <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">ircservices at ircservices.za.net</A>
  42 </I>&gt;<i>To: <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">ircservices at ircservices.za.net</A>
  43 </I>&gt;<i>Subject: RE: [IRCServices] /ns ghost exploit
  44 </I>&gt;<i>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:48:51 -0000 (GMT)
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  46 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; Andrew Church wrote:
  47 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;      C'est la vie; I don't see this as a problem Services needs to
  48 </I>&gt;<i>handle.
  49 </I>&gt;<i>
  50 </I>&gt;<i>I see. It is a problem Services introduced so it seemed appropriate for
  51 </I>&gt;<i>Services to handle it :(
  52 </I>&gt;<i>
  53 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; If you have particular users doing this and it annoys other users, deal
  54 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; with the trouble causers individually.
  55 </I>&gt;<i>
  56 </I>&gt;<i>Dealing with the current individuals concerned over this issue, does not
  57 </I>&gt;<i>make the problem go away. It merely creates a maintenance task each time
  58 </I>&gt;<i>someone new uses it. Prevention seems better than cure in this, as in any
  59 </I>&gt;<i>system.
  60 </I>&gt;<i>
  61 </I>&gt;<i>It seems odd that I can turn off Services' own ability to kill users in
  62 </I>&gt;<i>various circumstances (NSForceNickChange), but must allow users the power
  63 </I>&gt;<i>to use Services to kill another user off the network, especially when
  64 </I>&gt;<i>Services is already &quot;handling&quot; the user depending on registration options.
  65 </I>&gt;<i>A single 'if (has_identified_nick())' (or similar) on the target would seem
  66 </I>&gt;<i>to be a suitable solution and is the one I will look into implementing.
  67 </I>&gt;<i>
  68 </I>&gt;<i>--
  69 </I>&gt;<i>Mark.
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  80 Craig McLure
  81 <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">Craig at e-tidalwave.org</A>
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