From: Ansgar Wiechers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2003-06-18 Richard Parry wrote: >> theres a builtin telnet server included with win2k (server and >> workstation). > > Oh yeah, thats the perfect way of breaking into a machine ! Telnet is > plain text, so is very easy to sniff anything that goes on ! I hope > you are being sarcastic !
You do know, that by default Windows is using NTLM authentication for telnet, don't you? Of course that's not comparable to ssh, but it sure is a lot better than plaintext authentication.
Thats totally true, but worthless. Authentication isn't the problem, it's the transmission that's in the clear, so now you're sending your loging name and password in cleartext. Sure, they're stored in NTLMv2 format at the other end, but what does that matter if they just put a sniffer on the wire?
Chris Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator JM Associates
"Within every man beats a heart of darkness." --The Shadow
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