Re: rlogin yes, telnet no ?!

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:57:56 +0000 (GMT)

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> It would be a good feature for masquerade to preserve privileged ports (or not - make it configurable).
> rlogin and rlogind use the privileged ports for "security" and stuff like .rhosts. It's not secure
> at all though.

It might be even better to educate users into things like ssh. rlogin via
masquerade raises some fascinating exploit opportunities in itself. It
wouldnt be hard for someone to tweak the masquerade code to reserve a few
'priviledged' ports for itself however.

Alan

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