Thanks for the link Mark. for the curious... I was given a requirement for a training lab. a host in the lab must run an application which communicates with a hardware probe. the application gets configured by plugging the probe in via an Ethernet cable and pressing a series of buttons. the root password must be set in advance to the hard coded password used by the probe. once installed, the probe never initiates communication again and never uses root again. bass-ackwards you say? welcome to my nightmare.
I wasn't concerned about sniffing etc etc... and my only choice was to allow root telnet. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 3:12 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] how does one permit root telnet Ryan Leathers wrote: > You don't hear this one every day. > I need to allow root telnet access to a Linux host. You can add a measure of security to this by using a one-time-password scheme such as S/Key. It won't keep folks from sniffing your traffic, but it will prevent unauthorized access to your system. Check out this link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_skey/ Cheers, Mark -- Mark Turner www.siteseers.com Sign up now for VoIP service! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
