At 10:17 PM 3/15/98 +0100, you wrote:
>
>But then, remote login (especially as root, direct or indirect via su) is
>only a good idea in a LAN you control so you can be sure it's sniffer
>free. If you are using it over the ``open'' internet, consider using ssh,
>which encrypts your data transfer (including the password ofcourse).
>(ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/redhat ... or so)
Of course, you could always change the name of "root" to something less
conspicuous, which I did on my system. At least its less attention getting
than root is to a sniffer :)
Ken
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