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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:59:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
To:        sen_ml@eccosys.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh-feature 'backdoor'
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.21.0001200957260.9336-100000@vtopus.cs.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000120160325Z.1000@eccosys.com>

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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:

> not necessarily.  if you perform a successful denial-of-service attack
> of a certain type on one of your allowed hosts, and you know a
> password to get in to the server running the ssh daemon, then you can
> manage i think.

Isn't the RootLogin NoPwd (sp) setting there for this scenario?

Daniel

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Daniel Hagan                                             Computer Science CSE
dhagan@cs.vt.edu                                http://www.cs.vt.edu/~dhagan/



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