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Re: SSH probe attack afoot?

Subject: Re: SSH probe attack afoot?
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:48:23 -0800
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:42:32 -0300, Martin Sarsale wrote:

And: does ssh provides this kind of functionality? (I know it could be a
security breach in case you type your root password in uppercase and it
ends on your logs)

It's generally a Bad Idea to log passwords.  This can open you up to
accusations of the US Federal crime of trafficking in passwords, even
if you're just using them internally.  It also allows potentially
malicious users to deflect blame by claiming someone else had their
password.

Check this thread on the OpenSSH mailing list (Oct 20 2004) for
details on logging passwords:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109838679600001

With that said, this post (Oct 22 2004 by Baqrtek Krajnik) provides a
patch to auth-passwd.c to log each password used whether successful or
not.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=secure-shell&m=109863906400531

-- Steve

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