Protocols (Was: HTTP)

[Stewart Stremler]

begin  quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:16:21PM -0800:
[snip]
> c: ``hi! i'm root''
> s: ``hi root.''      unvalidated. bad.
> 
> c: ``hi! i'm root!''
> s: ``prove it.''
> c: ``this is something only root knows''
> s: ``okay, you are root.''   validated. acceptable.

And even then, you can tell SSH not to even allow this:

c: "hi! I'm root!"
s: "prove it."
c: "this is something that only root knows"
s: "go away you're bothering me."

-Stewart "Or somesuch" Stremler