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SubjectRe: Giving a user root access
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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