Another reason not to use sudo?

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Mon Nov 22 15:19:46 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:41:15PM +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> So ssh NEVER sends any unencrypted dater (apart from maybe the host
> and username you are connecting to.
> 
> Interesting - was original password not being encrypted an issue in
> older versions of ssh?

Not to my knowledge, ever. This would have been a fatal flaw, defeating
the entire purpose of ssh.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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