Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:35:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, Giap Vu <giqu@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root user can't login Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980513083435.22412C-100000@voyager.cris.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980513185846.00939a10@peace.com.my>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, chas wrote: If the packets aren't encrypted, yes. But in a telnet session, each keystroke generates 4 packets: the keystroke sent to the host, the echo back to the session, and the two ack's. If the sniffer KNOWS that you are entering a password, then you are pretty much sunk. > >it does not accept you to telnet to a machine and use root account > >because of some security problems (probably sniffers) > > This is something I used to wonder about before > we moved to ssh. If I telnet in as some user and > then su to root, and if there's a sniffer, isn't > he going to get both passwords anyway ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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