Re: logging on remotely as root

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From: Johan Kullstam
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:44

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bekj@tertius.net.au (Bek Oberin) writes:

> Mostyn BRAMLEY-MOORE (mostynm@queeg.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote...
> > >You get no security advantage from doing this.  If the attacker can
> > >listen to your Telnet login, he can listen to your su commands.  The
> > >only relatively secure way is ssh.
> > or possibly even better, srp-telnet.  
> 
> Never heard of it, what makes it better than ssh?

SRP provides drop replacements for telnet, ftp and their daemons.
these replacements can (optionally) do encryption of password and the
session.  the SRP clients and servers can interoperate with the
standard un-encrypted ones too.

it doesn't set up a pipe or tunnel through which you can send info.

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