Need a sniffer/password capture to prove telnet is bad

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:36, Edward Croft wrote:
>I have a user I am trying to convince to quit using telnet. I have
> told him that his password can be sniffed and that would expose his
> system. He laughs and tells me that no one can get his password. So
> he threw down the gauntlet for me to get his password. He telnets
> into his home machine from work and I want to capture that, so what
> I am looking for is something that can be run from my machine,
> listen to his here at work and capture his home password without
> knowing explicitly the address of that home machine. Any
> suggestions. I just tried to build dsniff, but it failed. It would
> be beneficial to prove this to him. Since I am not a hacker I am
> not fully aware of these sniffers and how they function. Not even
> sure what I am looking for. I assume it is possible otherwise we
> wouldn't be trying to get people to not use telnet and ftp. Thanks
> in advance.
>--
>Edward M. Croft
>Sr. Systems Engineer
>Open Ratings, Inc.
>200 West Street
>Waltham, MA 02451-1121

Well, if worse came to worse, it could be found with tcpdump, but it 
sure would be a lot of reading.

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