Re: sshd for windows

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2003-06-18 Richard Parry wrote:
> > theres a builtin telnet server included with win2k (server and
> > workstation).
>
> Oh yeah, thats the perfect way of breaking into a machine ! Telnet is
> plain text, so is very easy to sniff anything that goes on ! I hope
> you are being sarcastic !

You do know, that by default Windows is using NTLM authentication for
telnet, don't you? Of course that's not comparable to ssh, but it sure
is a lot better than plaintext authentication.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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