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From: TooManyPutters on 14 Sep 2005 09:03
Using Ubuntu 5.04. How do I bypass the login and password screen? Or at
least automate it?


From: Jean-David Beyer on 14 Sep 2005 09:27
TooManyPutters wrote:
> Using Ubuntu 5.04. How do I bypass the login and password screen? Or at
> least automate it?
>
>
You must be crazy. This is such a bad security risk that no one should ever
do it. Even worse if your machine is connected to a network, such as the
Internet.

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From: TooManyPutters on 14 Sep 2005 09:40

"Jean-David Beyer" <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote in message
news:11ig99ecqnp189f(a)corp.supernews.com...
> TooManyPutters wrote:
>> Using Ubuntu 5.04. How do I bypass the login and password screen? Or at
>> least automate it?
>>
>>
> You must be crazy. This is such a bad security risk that no one should
> ever
> do it. Even worse if your machine is connected to a network, such as the
> Internet.
>
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
> ^^-^^ 09:25:00 up 91 days, 3:22, 5 users, load average: 9.22, 8.80, 8.06

I guess I don't understand that security feature then against the internet.
Once I have logged in, haven't I opened it to the outside world? (assuming
I have no security features running).


From: Jean-David Beyer on 14 Sep 2005 10:03
TooManyPutters wrote:
> "Jean-David Beyer" <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote in message
> news:11ig99ecqnp189f(a)corp.supernews.com...
>
>>TooManyPutters wrote:
>>
>>>Using Ubuntu 5.04. How do I bypass the login and password screen? Or at
>>>least automate it?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You must be crazy. This is such a bad security risk that no one should
>>ever
>>do it. Even worse if your machine is connected to a network, such as the
>>Internet.
>>
>>--
>> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
>> /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
>>/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
>>^^-^^ 09:25:00 up 91 days, 3:22, 5 users, load average: 9.22, 8.80, 8.06
>
>
> I guess I don't understand that security feature then against the internet.
> Once I have logged in, haven't I opened it to the outside world? (assuming
> I have no security features running).
>
>
Your machine might be always connected to the Internet (e.g., if you are on
DSL or cable), or you might be logged in as one user. In either case, a
black hat could then login as another instance of you, or as the user with
no password, and start looking for ways to do whatever he thinks he needs to
do. Saves him the trouble of logging into your machine. And he need not even
be at your machine. Anywhere on the Internet would be an access point to
your machine with no password protection.

--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 10:00:00 up 91 days, 3:57, 4 users, load average: 10.81, 11.19, 11.05
From: Peter T. Breuer on 14 Sep 2005 10:02
TooManyPutters <RainyDay(a)theswamp.com> wrote:
> I guess I don't understand that security feature then against the internet.
> Once I have logged in, haven't I opened it to the outside world? (assuming
> I have no security features running).

Whatever you are saying sounds like random psychobabble. What is "it"?
Logging in does nothing except logging in! The point is that if you can
do it (i.e. logging in) without a password, so can anyone else!

Is that not clear? If not, ask how you can remove your front door so that
you don't have to fumble for a key any more!


Peter
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