On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:59:25PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jason Hirsch wrote:
>
> > regular user and SU .... but i can't run all the apps (which sucks)
> > because some are console locked... and since investing in a switch would
>
> Like what? More importantly, why? There shouldn't be anything you can do
> at the console that you can't do through a secure root session using
> OpenSSH.
For reasons I still don't fathom, the zip and unzip tools which support
encryption require you to be on the console when you feed it passphrases.
They claim that any other input device is insecure.
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