From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 18:25:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA28424 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.206]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28418 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:25:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA18369; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:24:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:24:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Annelise Anderson cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ethernet packet sniffer. In-Reply-To: <01I04ED7J0MA00AKNQ@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > It sounds like the sys admin--or anyone with root privileges--can > read absolutely everything going on--all e-mail in and out, all > keyboard activity, and so forth. Is this right? Thanks well, yes! considering that the sysadmin can read any file, considering that any knowledgeable user can turn a pc into a sniffer and log sessions, considering that e-mail travels the internet in the clear (like a postcard, no envelope, apologies to phil zimmerman for abusing hisanalogy), if you have sensitive data use encryption. or better yet keep off of multi-user systems. take a look at the man pages for ssh and the docs for pgp Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG