On Wed, 02 May 2001 04:43:47 Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:37:43AM -0400, Statux a ecrit:
>>
>> I thought that root logins were the reason why people recommend ssh in
>> the first place. <shrug> Is there something I don't know? :)
>
>This is just a guess but it must be easier to "steal" the password
>passed at the beginning of the session than to steal the one passed
>at the su prompt (since you don't know when the user types su).
SSH does not give you a prompt at all until after the encrypted session has
been established.
Tony
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