Re: Remote Administration on W2K

From: ,,, (fg@tiscali.be)
Date: 08/03/01 

Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:17:25 +0200
To: Frank Heyne <fh@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de>
Subject: Re: Remote Administration on W2K
Message-ID: <20010803081725.A16330@mailadm.tiscalinet.be>
From: ",,," <fg@tiscali.be>

Make 'su root' and type in your password, it shall be sent in clear text ;)

The moment you write down a password can be another one than the first
authentication : you can login to any service from the box you logged in
the first time

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:16:05AM +0200, Frank Heyne wrote:
> On 31 Jul 01, at 18:00, Igor Kurtovic wrote regarding VNC:
>
> > the password sent is cleartext...
>
> Can you prove this statement?
>
> In the VNC FAQ 54 I can read they use some kind of challange response for
> authentication, and no clear passwords are sent. So I wonder how you come
> to your assertion?
>
> Greetings
>
> Frank Heyne

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