On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:12:03PM -0500, Decibel! wrote:
> ISTM that if someone breaches your network to the point where they can
> spoof identd, you're pretty much hosed anyway; so what's the point of
> hard-coding passwords in a config file somewhere then?
True. I personally prefer cryptographic authentication for this
reason (but it's not perfect either -- if someone has root, they have
root. You're hosed). None of my employers ever seem willing to pay
the additional overhead, however.
A
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