Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:36:49 +0100 From: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> To: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, shovey@buffnet.net, csfbsd@raggedclown.net Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the fish Message-ID: <200203231126.56275@silver.dt1.binity.net> In-Reply-To: <F61GQUEYvZmDvHbYxPo0000a6bd@hotmail.com> References: <F61GQUEYvZmDvHbYxPo0000a6bd@hotmail.com>
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[in reply to Charles Burns, Saturday 23 March 2002 08:32] > Thinking about it, are there really any compelling reasons to use SSH > for most tasks (like command shells) when the likelyhood of being > packet sniffed is (in most environments) far lower than the likelyhood > of a serious security flaw popping up in SSH, which happens > occasionally? Another nice and lesser known feature of SSH is that it protects you from other parties pretending to be the host, by means of a private host key that only the server knows. If the actual host key is not what it expects, ssh will complain or abort. Don't forget that FreeBSD's telnetd was the object of one of the big exploits last year! -- Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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