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Re: [cobalt-users] security



On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

} Correct my thinking here but if you are hosting a raq in a colo or dedicated
} facility, and you telnet in with admin account, anyone with another machine
} can run a sniffer, see your admin password, use it to get to root, and crack
} your machine.
} SSH only.

	You are right. Unless the network is segmented by a switch
anyone with root access on any of the machines on that network can
sniff all the packets on that network - including your packets.