Re: anyone using telnet

[Colin Phipps <cph@netcraft.com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:58:06AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:
>   I'd like anyone to be able to use the local keyboard of some machines to telnet/ssh to any other machine and use their account on the other machine.
>   
>   A simple solution would be create one acount for user "anyone" without password and restrict its login with rbash to use just telnet/ssh. Also disallow ftp for user "anyone".
>   Do you think this is a good solution? Does it opens some security hole?

You'll have to tie down the telnet options somehow; looking at telnet(1) 
it has options for logging data etc (I'm thinking of one user enabling 
logging to capture other users' passwords).

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