Re: security-basics Digest 18 Jun 2003 22:09:15 -0000 Issue 618

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2003-06-19 Damon McMahon wrote:
> > The telnet built into Windows 2000 uses NTLMv2 authentication by
> > defalt.  While this is not 3DES or RC4, it is still not plain text.
>
> Running windump on a Windows 2000 client and tcpdump on a MacOSX 10.1
> client shows the login: and password: transmitted in clear text to a
> Windows XP telnet server.
>
> Can you specify any documentation stating NTLM is used?

The telnet service built into Windows NT can be configured to use either
NTLM, Login or both (first NTLM, then Login if NTLM fails). NTLM is the
default.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=233069

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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