telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ?
Alex Bligh
alex at alex.org.uk
Tue Jul 31 21:44:14 UTC 2001
> 2) Your vendor's ssh authentication creates a secure connection, and
> transfers the password securely, only to then send the password,
> unencrypted, to an authentication server for verification, making
> ssh moot.
Less moot if
a) The p/w contains one-time p/w components, or
(if you like logging into your routers more often)
b) You configure aaa to run over ip-sec (say), and fall back to console
access which is either out of band, or contains one time passwords
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Alex Bligh
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