Re: (PM) Feature Request (was SECURITY PROBLEM.) (fwd)

Brian Elfert (brian@citilink.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:17:15 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, MegaZone wrote:

> >telnetting into a *nix box, even if a root session gets dropped, IT DOES
> >NOT SPIT OUT CLEARTEXT PASSWDS TO WHOEVER TELNETS IN!
>
> PMs do it in ONE situation - someone was specifically doing a PPP debug
> and did not close the debug properly. This is easy to avoid doing.

Isn't the results of a PPP debug still not in cleartext? Doesn't the
results of a debug have to be sent through somethig like Dring to get the
cleartext of a password?

Brian

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