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

Rick Smith (rsmith@nac.net)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:33:52 -0400 (EDT)

you're right.

but how easy is THAT?

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Brian Elfert wrote:

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|
|On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, MegaZone wrote:
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|> >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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