Re: hacked?

[John Gould <johng@skeletor.powinv.co.uk>]

Hi there,
         I guess that password complexity is not the issue here. It's
incredibly easy to 'sniff' plain text passwords off of a LAN! However if
your happy no one is going to attempt this then telnet without ssh is
fine.
Just my twopennyworth.

Regards JohnG 


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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

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> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote:
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> > # apt-get install ssh
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package ssh has no available version, but exists in the database.
> > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> > of sources.list
> > E: Package ssh has no installation candidate
> > 
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> Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb http://non-us.debian.org /potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> On the other hand, I do not feel as strongly as other posters that telnet
> needs to be disabled in order to have a secure machine.  Strong passwords
> will work just as well.  I have an account on a large Solaris network
> where telnet has been open for ages, and will continue to be.  The passwd
> program in *incredibly* anal about ensuring that all passwords are
> complex.  To my knowledge there has never been a significant security
> breach on this network.
> 
> noah
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