Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:21:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Giving a user root access |
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Kev wrote:
> > they're talking about doing an 'rlogin localhost'. I dont think you woul= > > d > > need to encrypt communications over the loopback interface, would you? ;) > > tcpdump -i lo works, doesn't it?
That's silly. If someone can sniff you via tcpdump -i lo, they could just as well sniff you via intercepting your tty, trojaning the ssh or sshd binaries, etc.
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