MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 12.08.2004 schrieb John Lagrue um 18:18:

> >>>That has the severe downside, that if someone got on the system as an
> >>>unprivileged user he could sniff while you are su'ing to root, which is
> >>>not successful if you ssh in as root using publick key authentication
> >>>rather than password authentication.

> >>Your saying that if you use ssh2 to connect to a server and the su to
> >>root that they can sniff your root password?

> >I believe what he is saying is that if someone is already sniffing, then
> >they will get the root password.

> IN that case might I respectfully suggest that he's wrong. If you 
> connect via ssh then all traffic between the ssh client and the server 
> is encrypted. So it doesn't matter what is typed in the client - 
> sniffing will only give gobblegook.
> 
> JDL

I was not speaking about the network transfer between client and server.
I thought this was obvious. I was speaking about the possibility to
locally, on the SSHD system itself, to sniff password entries when
running "su".

Alexander


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