Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Nov 23 19:54:43 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:47:05PM -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote:
> >down the gauntlet for me to get his password. He telnets into his home
> >machine from work and I want to capture that, so what I am looking for
> >is something that can be run from my machine, listen to his here at work
> >and capture his home password without knowing explicitly the address of
[...]
> Ethereal can capture that just fine in promisc mode...

But, if it's a switched network, you'll need to actually be somewhere in the
path his packets are travelling. (Or somehow convince the switch to send all
packets your direction, which may not be trivial.)


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