[Full-disclosure] Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....

[Matthew Flaschen]

I have a dual WinXP/Debian boot, and I deal with that problem by locking 
my door.

Matt Flaschen

cardoso wrote:
> Exactly. A few years ago I used to deal with linux fanboys showing them
> the cute trick of "linux single" at boot time. After a few hours begging
> for the admin password, I teached the trick and they usually stopped the
> brag about how security Linux was. 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:34:49 -0500
> Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> 
> PS> --On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:24:11 -0400 mflaschen3 at mail.gatech.edu 
> PS> wrote:
> PS> 
> PS> > Windows offers no security against local users.  It is trivial to boot to
> PS> > a program like ERD Commander and replace admin passwords.  On the other
> PS> > hand, PuTTy is meant to protect against everyone; that's why it doesn't
> PS> > allow saved passwords.  Thus, this seems like a vulnerability to me.
> PS> >
> PS> Unix offers no security against local users either.  If I can sit at the 
> PS> console, I can login in single user mode, mount the drives rw and edit 
> PS> /etc/passwd all day.
> PS> 
> PS> Furthermore, I can take any hard drive, with any file system on it, and 
> PS> with the right tools I can read everything on the drive, even deleted stuff.
> PS> 
> PS> So what's your point?  That when you own the box you own the box?
> PS> 
> PS> If you first have to own the box to get to the information, then it's not a 
> PS> vulnerability.  It's not best practice, but it's not a vulnerability.
> PS> 
> PS> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> PS> Senior Information Security Analyst
> PS> The University of Texas at Dallas
> PS> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
> 
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> Carlos Cardoso
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