sending commands to a remote server using telnet.pm

2001-08-09 Thread Fields, Aubrey
List, I have a cgi on my site that collects a users name and password from a form then uses telnet.pm to login to a remote server and run a command. I need to pass a parameter to this command but cannot figure out how. This is what I have working... #!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI qw(:sta

RE: Cookies and Security

2001-08-09 Thread Fields, Aubrey
Joel is right. A "known plaintext" attack is very effective... and sending a sample of you encryption to anyone is risky. Also, just for information sake, you can recover passwords from digest form... sort of. Ever heard of "Crack" or "John the Ripper"? If you enforce strong passwords then it