On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:36, Edward Croft wrote: >I have a user I am trying to convince to quit using telnet. I have > told him that his password can be sniffed and that would expose his > system. He laughs and tells me that no one can get his password. So > he threw down the gauntlet for me to get his password. He telnets > into his home machine from work and I want to capture that, so what > I am looking for is something that can be run from my machine, > listen to his here at work and capture his home password without > knowing explicitly the address of that home machine. Any > suggestions. I just tried to build dsniff, but it failed. It would > be beneficial to prove this to him. Since I am not a hacker I am > not fully aware of these sniffers and how they function. Not even > sure what I am looking for. I assume it is possible otherwise we > wouldn't be trying to get people to not use telnet and ftp. Thanks > in advance. >-- >Edward M. Croft >Sr. Systems Engineer >Open Ratings, Inc. >200 West Street >Waltham, MA 02451-1121 Well, if worse came to worse, it could be found with tcpdump, but it sure would be a lot of reading. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
