RE: sniffing X traffic.

[Joshua Wright <Joshua.Wright () jwu edu>]

You should be looking at dsniff by Dug Song
(http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/).

Included is an X11 decoder to display clear-text passwords.  You can
probably modify this to fit your needs.

-Joshua Wright
Joshua.Wright () jwu edu 


-----Original Message-----
From: Power Steve [mailto:steve.power () barclaycard co uk]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:45 AM
To: 'PEN-TEST () securityfocus com'
Subject: sniffing X traffic.


Hey all

long time listener, first time caller.

Anyone know if you can meaningfully sniff Exceed ( I guess it's the same as
X) traffic?  Im being a bit lame, my personal test lab is down atm, and I
cant find anything on the net re sniffing and interpreting X traffic.

If anyone would be so kind as to answer a specific question, could I see
passwords etc in the traffic?

thanks in advance.

Steve Power
Security Consultant




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