From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 09:11:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17602 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17542 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA20377; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:09:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199803121709.LAA20377@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET? To: Brian_Beattie@atlas.com (Brian Beattie) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:09:53 -0600 (CST) Cc: leifn@image.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Brian Beattie at "Mar 12, 98 08:40:58 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Brian Beattie said: > > Note: that if I can sniff packets from your network, and passwords are in > the clear, I very likely have complete access to every host on that > network. All the more reason to use ssh -- All generalizations are false. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message