[ILUG] Quick one lads - Increasing users in telnetd

[Chris Higgins]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:51:56 +0000 (GMT)
Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> > telnetd? telnet bloody d? It's 2004 and you're asking telnetd 
> > questions?
> >
> > Let me guess - your customer knows how bad telnet is, but it's OK 
> > as it's all on a private LAN?
> 
> Whats wrong with telnet exactly? (my only immediate annoyance with it 
> is that it doesnt seem to be 8bit clean - at least, I cant get UTF-8 
> to work over telnet sessions).
> 
> Btw, here's a full tcpdump[1] of me logging into a machine here using 
> telnet:
> 
>  	http://hibernia.jakma.org/~paul/telnet-login-dump.tcpdump
> 
> Feel free to run strings on it.

Who cares about strings, I just ran it through ethereal .... and I've
now got your userid/password  - muhaaaa haa haaaaa haaaaaaaaaa

Userid: kerbe
password: rosv5

Now you know that you should at least have some upper case characters in that
passwrd and it should be longer than that.

Tsk tsk,
> 
> > Niall
> 
> 1. tcpdump -i eth0 -s 1500 -w <file>
> 
> regards,
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