Re: nis & shadow

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Gabriel Millerd wrote:

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> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
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> > As I said before it's moot anyway because I can sniff the packets off
> > the ethernet. Don't be so sure that someone who plugs into your net
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>         Ummm, you lost me. I thought that ADT Security got you before you
> setup your machine. How is it that your sniffing packets off my ethernet
> again? over your WAN connection...
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Well, um no, ADT did not get me because I'm not an intruder, I'm that new guy
down the hall who just got hired. I'm not saying anything about coming from
the outside

  [ material only relevant if I *were* talking about being off the lan removed
]

>         Oh I am sure someone didn't remember to do something or didnt
> think of something. But I sort of trust your not going to sniff packets in
> the manner you describe (or actually dont describe).

There's already a debian package to do it, it's called tcpdump. The documents
which describe the binary format of RPC requests/replys are publicly
available. You shouldn't trust that I'm not going to sniff packets.

--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com



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