Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:58:41 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.net>, Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@require-re.42.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no more pty's / lockout Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811201744410.14008-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811201435200.30971-100000@bragg>
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, David Gilbert wrote: > > > ssh (and I believe rsh... but I don't use it) will allow a > > login without an available tty as follows: > > > > ssh -l root <hostname> "bash -i" > > or csh -i, etc. > > The rsh version also won't leave traces in your utmp (at least, they don't on > other systems), never tried it with ssh but I'd expect something similar. I've come across hacker texts which reccomend using a non-interactive shell for this reason. Any suggestions on simple ways to see who's on line that get around this problem? Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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