Permit root login for telnet..
Bill Tangren
bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Wed Aug 30 21:27:18 UTC 2006
Shekhar Dhotre wrote:
> OK , no one has access to network room here than Coms guys . Even I
> cannot go in as I am in Unix/Storages group. Our comm. guys are not
> interested in checking our passwords.
>
> Also they have access to most of the prod switches, so they are trusted
> by the business. Again not a risk .
>
>
That's what some of us here thought too... until someone broke in to one of our
computers, put the network card in promiscuous mode, started a password sniffer,
and then got the root passwords for dozens of boxes.
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