Preventing users from loggin into a unix box - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Apr 2001

On April 19, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
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  True.  I guess I just assume everyone runs ssh now. 
:)  I'd recommend against
 telent or rlogin regardless of what port you use.  Just too dangerous to
 have plain text passwords traveling over ethernet, even if it never
 gets outside of the company firewall.  You never can tell if that windows box
 next door has a packet sniffer. 
  Not everyone runs ssh nowadays.  For networks of more than a handful
of machines, it just doesn't seem to scale well enough, as nice as it
is.  For larger networks a central network authentication system like
Kerberos is much more suitable, in my opinion.

             -Dave McGuire