[CentOS] Using tcpdump to sniff telnet password

Joshua Gimer jgimer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 23:57:07 UTC 2008


On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:

> Hi all,
> As long as I can remember reading various articles/docs, they all  
> say that
> telnet is not secure because all traffic is in clear text. Well, out  
> of
> boredom, I try to sniff username and password from a telnet session.

I would suggest using dsniff, it has the ability to parse out  
passwords in the flows that it see's.

http://monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/

Joshua Gimer 



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