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Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices

  • From: Adam McKenna
  • Date: Fri Feb 11 15:02:42 2000 
Also, I believe ssh won't do this if you remove the suid bit (which is 
probably a good idea anyway).

--Adam

On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:07:25AM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Its not a bug, its a leftover from rsh days - if the connection originates
> from a port below 1024, you could assume *cough* that the credentials the
> connection supplies are authentic, since the process needs to be root to
> bind to ports < 1024.
> 
> This isn't a "but thats flawed!" discussion seed, take that to bugtraq.
> 
> There's a flag to ssh somewhere to stop it doing that. Yup, -P .
> 
> Adrian