From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 8 14:25:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA21112 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA21075 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA16277 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:25:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA29498; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:11:03 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:11:03 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712082211.XAA29498@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <01bd01aa$f4f35de0$09d181c2@user2.shellnet.co.uk> <199712052035.OAA00812@unix.tfs.net> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Telnet Root access X-Original-Newsgroups: poster In-Reply-To: To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Mitchell wrote: > > man su > > This is pretty dumb, as the password is _still_ passing over an insecure > network in plaintext form. You've always got the option to use S/Key. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)