From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 21 20:10:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.gu.edu.au (kraken.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.250.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D30237B400 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:10:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (daemon@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.86.1]) by mailhost.gu.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g2M4AMc09406 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:10:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g2M4AT5P006303 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:10:29 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:10:29 +1000 (EST) From: Steven Goodwin To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe SSH logins from public, untrusted Windows computers In-Reply-To: <3C97BDE4.8040301@nisser.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Richard Ward wrote: > > Chris Johnson, > > ... > > If I could shoot a really crazy idea your way: What about using the > > "Character Map" program included with Windows to slowly "type" out your > > password? Though that would probably be cached long before you overwrite the > > Clipboard. > > Since we're talking about wacky ideas, whatever happened to the one I'm > about to state: "keypress timing". Well, maybe nobody ever thought of it, Without wanting to prolong the wacky ideas thread too much further, how about using the screen port (/usr/ports/misc/screen). Logged on at a secure terminal, you could start a screen session, su to root, then detach (ctrl+a+d). When you are on travels, simply log in (using a particular method described on this thread) to your remote machine as the user that owns the screen session, re-attach the session (screen -r) and viola, root access without passwords. Simple, but useless if the remote machine has been rebooted while you were away. Wacky. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message