Date: 02 Nov 2003 21:15:25 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ssh missing 'login as' prompt Message-ID: <44vfq2jiyq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200311022134.hA2LYJ408147@fat_man.ascendency.net> References: <200311022134.hA2LYJ408147@fat_man.ascendency.net>
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"Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> writes: > That works but only temporarily. The next time I login, it goes > directly to the password prompt. Am I fooling myself? Is it any > more secure to get a login as: prompt and then a password prompt as > compared to just going directly to a password prompt? The initiating side has to provide a username before it does anything else, so I don't understand what you think you're gaining. Certainly the machine you connect to won't notice any difference either way, and if you can't trust the machine you're connecting from, you're dead in the water (security-wise) anyway.
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