[Galen Hancock <galen at veribox.net>] Information leakage in sshd

Philip Hands phil at hands.com
Fri Mar 10 04:12:02 EST 2000


Hi,

Thought I'd just forward this here, because I don't have time to look
into it right now, and am off skiing next week.

I'd guess that we should be checking for username = ``root'' before
going off to do password checks, and rejecting it on that basis first.

Cheers, Phil.
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