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Old 05-18-2010, 11:41 AM   #1
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Using the talk daemon


Hi there --

I have the talk daemon available on one of our servers, and my intention is to use it to communicate with people who are logged into the machine.

The question I had is the following: As long as I talk to those who are logged into the localhost, there is little or no security vulnerability of which I need to concern myself. Correct?
 
Old 05-22-2010, 06:47 AM   #2
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Assuming that the users have limited permissions, then yes.
 
  


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