These passwords, along with the user names, are gathered with a program popularly known as a packet-sniffer, and the new information can be used to gain access to our systems, generally resulting in malicious activity (although usually restricted to the user in question). Telnet is particularly bad, most notably for the passwords that are typed as the user initiates the session. Most protocols don't have any encryption, and any packets sent from the client to the host are out there for anyone in-between to intercept and read.

Most of these attacks come from people who were able to learn the password of an account of a local user, usually by 'sniffing' it right from the network. We as system administration staff here in the CS department of Princeton are having to deal with break-ins, both attempted and successful, and compromised accounts. The need for security, as we hardly need reminding, is ever-increasing. Newer SSH clients (OpenSSH 6.8 or later) will use the SHA256 fingerprint: SHA256:9yBBea9Z0ER6asvvtNf6fRXVra6LOQ3OVZLtYKVpNc8. Some older SSH clients may display the new fingerprint as: xepon-kibyl-bogur-palik-zyvar-lesuc-rikof-zusab-hypib-volyh-muxux. On February 1, 2016, CS Department login hosts switched to using RSA type SSH host keys.

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Linux Machines used for CPU intensive jobs: Authenticated FTP to CS managed machines is not available.Īll of the public login servers allow ssh access and below you will find a list of machines that accept connections: The primary advantage of SSH over other protocols is that SSH encrypts all communications, whereas with FTP all transmissions (including logins) are submitted in plain text. Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol that supports terminal sessions and file transfer (like FTP).

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