[SunRescue] re: [OT] Reliable net access in the boonies

Greg A. Woods rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Mar 30 16:50:00 CST 2001


[ On Friday, March 30, 2001 at 10:44:02 (-0500), Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] re: [OT] Reliable net access in the boonies
>
> My best friend is the system administrator for the CS department at
> RIT (this account is basically an alum account... different story =) ).
> The nightmares he goes through with maintaining what the faculty
> INSISTS they need (he's still fighting to get telnet eliminated).

An anonymous sniffer and postings of passwords (even without account
names) on bulletin boards works wonders.  People have even done that at
several conferences (with terminal rooms) that I've been to lately.

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							Greg A. Woods

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