Re: ssh with no encryption ?

From: John Cochran (jdc@smof.fiawol.org)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: jdc@smof.fiawol.org (John Cochran)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:45:35 +0000 (UTC)

In article <Pine.NEB.4.51.0302211507170.3997@vjv.bofcz.se>,
Florence HENRY <Florence.Henry@obspm.fr> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>due to the security policy of my institute, I cannot use ssh when its
>encrypted.
>
>But I need to login as root on a distant machine, and I don't want its
>password to pass on the network.
<snip...>

I don't know about doing what you want using SSH, but have you considered
using one-time passwords for root using skey?

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