From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Osterried Subject: Re: Success! TWO questions remain Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:37:29 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021217173729.GA13904@osterried.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mvw@mvw.net Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org > In any case, another question. I want to be able to telnet into one > machine from another using radio. Encryption is forbidden for amateur use > so this means clear passwords. Not good. (Even though I will not use root, > of course). the cleartext passwort for becoming root may be ommited with this littel tool, on http://x-berg.in-berlin.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ampr/root/ (downloading the tarball (link on the bottom of the page is suggested)). it does md5-password challenge in the standard way as bbs password protection wroks. this is some kind of one-way-password mechanism, and it does not matter that anyone reads your answer string. be aware that your ax25 connections with your PID=text session or your ax25.ip.tcp telnet session _may_ be "overtaken" by someone else. 73, - thomas dl9sau