In article <slrnflau0s.5i7.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>,
Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
blmblm myrealbox.com <blmblm@myrealbox.com> wrote:
Huh. I have an account on a machine that claims to be running
SunOS 5.8, which is Solaris (as I understand it) but not very
recent, and when I log in remotely with ssh,
Come on, be fair to poor Twerpie. You know that ssh reads the
password locally, don't you? (eh, doesn't it?)
Good question. My first thought was "well, of course -- that
would make more sense, what was I thinking?" But thinking about
it more, I don't know -- when the ssh connection is up and running,
individual keystrokes are almost surely being relayed to the remote
system, aren't they? I'm not thinking, off the top of my head, how
to investigate further, without digging into source code somewhere.
The whole point of ssh is to establish an encrypted connection. Your