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From: Miles Sabin (milesmistral.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 14:44:04 CST

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    Daniel Grunblatt wrote,
    > James Ponder wrote,
    > > * If you had logged in as root via ssh, you wouldn't have
    > > lost any access details.
    >
    > wrong, you lose your root password to the attacker.

    Really? Even if you use public key auth? How?

    [I'm assuming that in James' scenario each machine has a
     different key pair even tho' they all share the same root
     password]

    Cheers,

    Miles 

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