Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 17:29:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>, ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet Root access Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971205172907.765A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19971205163751.03734@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Jaye Mathisen scribbled this message on Dec 5: > > > > > > > man su > > > > > > > I'm not sure how I see su helping. If he has to telnet in as a normal > > user, then su to root, he still has to send the root password in the > > clear. > > what it prevents is brute force password attempts to directly break > root's acount... Actually it doesn't really even prevent that. Su just adds more detailed logging of the attempts, which are more likely (IMO) to draw attention. - alex
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