> While I understand you concern, I am not sure whether this
> applies to SSH clients, since they are usually very
> different from telnet clients. You enter the usename when you
> start the client, so it's hard to get out of sync, e.g. I
> have never seen a user enter
> $ ssh -l mypasswd host
> This even applies to Windows SSH vs. telnet clients.
Not always. I can think of one Windows SSH client off the top of my head
that will prompt for the username and password seperately - SecureCRT. I'm
sure there are others as well that I'm just not thinking of right now...
Ben Greenbaum
Director of Site Content
SecurityFocus
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