Re: Giving a user root access

Kev (klmitch@mit.edu)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:07:42 EDT

> > rsh/rlogin are IMHO major security holes in a system. I would
> > never run rlogind/rshd on a networked system unless it was a
> > totally trusted private network. Even then, ssh is much better
> > of a shell as it provides security and encryption.
> >=20
>
> they're talking about doing an 'rlogin localhost'. I dont think you woul=
> d
> need to encrypt communications over the loopback interface, would you? ;)

tcpdump -i lo works, doesn't it?

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