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Re: losing root access through telnet





On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, James Olin Oden wrote:
> adminster the machine.  Its just too easy for someone to use a sniffer and see
> those plain text passwords.
ok , I've got it - I won't login remotely as root, and I'll get ssh, but
for what's it worth, here's my setup, and if someone can figure out how
can someone use a sniffer on me in any way other then getting physicaly to
the machines involved (I think I got that end covered), then I'd like to
know about it :
I dial-up on a local (non-Bezek) phone line to a cisco router that sits
inside the switch and then through a short 10base cable directly to the
linux box.

Oded