Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 18 Mar Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I would li

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 18 Mar Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > >I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ > >ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this > >windows machine? > >I would like to be able to login to my hom

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 07:39:43AM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > If someone puts a keystroke logger on your windows machine, they will > get the password. > > If they put a hardware logger on your computer, they will get the data. > > If they are watching over your shoulder just as you missty

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm using this

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread José Nicolás Castellano
Stian Øvrevåge wrote: Another problem is the Man-in-the-Middle problem, where you are led to believe that you are communicating with your home-computer, but your session is relayed on through a decrypting/encrypting gateway which is under someone else's controll. Of course exists the man-in-the

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Stian Øvrevåge
Another problem is the Man-in-the-Middle problem, where you are led to believe that you are communicating with your home-computer, but your session is relayed on through a decrypting/encrypting gateway which is under someone else's controll. To counteract this, you should obtain your home-computer

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread José Nicolás Castellano
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm using this windows machine at work? Can

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 12:23 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ > ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows > machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be > *monitored* by someone while I

Re: Ssh security with hosts.allow

2004-10-25 Thread Mark
I moved sshd off the standard port of 22, added a AllowUsers line, added a AllowGroups line, added a MaxStartups 8:30:10, I'd say taking the service to a nonstandard port helped more than anything. Logs have not shown an attempt after the move. On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:38:44AM -0700, Stev