Re: Filter to block incoming ether0 telnet?

Chris Shenton (chris@absinthe.i3inc.com)
Fri, 16 May 1997 10:49:16 -0400

On Fri, 16 May 1997 09:23:33 -0500 (CDT)
Jake Messinger <jake@ams.com> wrote:

jake> Hmmm... maybe you could telnet in as a NON root user, and
jake> then the default HOST for the NON root telnet user would be the
jake> portmaster itself, then you would log in as root and that way the packet
jake> with the root password in it never leaves the portmaster.

But it still passes over the WAN from my remote site keyboard, to the
joe-user login on the PM, thence to the !root login on the PM. So I'm
still vulnerable. :-(