Subject: Re: protection against login trojans?
To: None <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 04/06/2005 08:03:16
On 6-Apr-05, at 7:29 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Is there any way to reset a UNIX getty (or could that be implemented?),
> so that a user can be sure he's talking to getty and not to some 
> trojan?

I can't think of anything a person could do on a tty that would foil 
any such well written trojan.  Try using s/key if it's truly a concern.