Re: Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....

[Raj Mathur <raju () linux-delhi org>]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:14, cardoso wrote:
> Exactly. A few years ago I used to deal with linux fanboys showing
> them the cute trick of "linux single" at boot time. After a few
> hours begging for the admin password, I teached the trick and they
> usually stopped the brag about how security Linux was.

Can't do that in most modern distributions today -- they're configured 
to ask for root password before they give a single-user shell.

Not that there aren't other ways around that restriction...

-- Raju

> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:34:49 -0500
> Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:
>
> PS> --On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:24:11 -0400
> mflaschen3 () mail gatech edu PS> wrote:
> PS>
> PS> > Windows offers no security against local users.  It is
> trivial to boot to PS> > a program like ERD Commander and replace
> admin passwords.  On the other PS> > hand, PuTTy is meant to
> protect against everyone; that's why it doesn't PS> > allow saved
> passwords.  Thus, this seems like a vulnerability to me. PS> >
> PS> Unix offers no security against local users either.  If I can
> sit at the PS> console, I can login in single user mode, mount the
> drives rw and edit PS> /etc/passwd all day.
> PS>
> PS> Furthermore, I can take any hard drive, with any file system on
> it, and PS> with the right tools I can read everything on the
> drive, even deleted stuff. PS>
> PS> So what's your point?  That when you own the box you own the
> box? PS>
> PS> If you first have to own the box to get to the information,
> then it's not a PS> vulnerability.  It's not best practice, but
> it's not a vulnerability. PS>

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