Re: Giving a user root access

Zlatko Calusic (linker@z.ml.org)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:40:03 -0400 (EDT)


To tcpdump they would already be root.. They could just replace the rlogin
bin.

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Kev wrote:

> > > rsh/rlogin are IMHO major security holes in a system. I would
> > > never run rlogind/rshd on a networked system unless it was a
> > > totally trusted private network. Even then, ssh is much better
> > > of a shell as it provides security and encryption.
> > >=20
> >
> > 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?
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