Re: [Plug] Proxy Server

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

all of those protocols (ftp/telnet) are clear text, so when you're
sending your username/password to the proxy, if someone on yor LAN is
snooping all the traffic goign by (like the stuff destined for the proxy),
the can snoop your uname/pass...with things like back orifice out there,
I'd be lothe to use these servies.

stick with ssh and the like

k

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it. 
    -- John Gilmore
mortis@voicenet.com                            http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Brent R. Matzelle wrote:

> Why wouldn't they have opened the ports before?  Isn't
> incorporating the MS Proxy Client on 300 computers a
> bigger pain?  Or is there some sort of security issue
> involved?  
> 
> Brent
> 
> --- tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > We have MS Proxy Server at work. In order to telnet
> > and ftp without MS' WSP
> > client on Windoz you have to open up those ports on
> > the Proxy Server. What
> > a pain...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > mortis@voicenet.com on 08/17/99 09:24:36 AM
> > 
> > Please respond to plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > 
> > To:   plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > cc:    (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
> > Subject:  Re: [Plug] Proxy Server
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I've worked with some proxies in the past, and you
> > can usualy use them
> > without socks -- for telnet, I've had to telnet
> > directly to the proxy,
> > then the proxy either just asks for a new host to
> > telnet to, or first
> > asks me to authenticate to it.
> > For ftp, it's usualy the same deal, only a little
> > harier if it wants you
> > to authenticate:
> > [on your box]$ ftp proxy.on.schools.network.net
> > user: proxy_user@external.ftp.host.to.connect.to
> > pass: <proxy_password>
> > user: external_ftp_user
> > pass: <external_ftp_password>
> > I think that was an MS proxy I used in the ftp
> > case...
> > I've seen three different methods of using these
> > proxies, and they've each
> > got quirks in how they want you to authenticate to
> > them, but I've been
> > able to use all of them.
> > good luck,
> > k
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---
> > Michael Corleone: "Soldiers are paid to fight; the
> > rebels aren't."Hyman
> > Roth:
> > "What does that tell you?"Michael Corleone: "It
> > tells me the rebels could
> > win."
> >     -- The Godfather, Part II
> > mortis@voicenet.com
> > http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---
> > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Michael C. Toren wrote:
> > > > My school incorporated MS Proxy server to deal
> > with bandwidth problems
> > > > or some such nonsense.  Immediately after it was
> > installed I couldn't
> > > > get anymore responses out of http or ftp sites. 
> > I went to
> > microsoft.com
> > > > <shiver> and found that I need to install some
> > sort of UNIX-based SOCKS
> > > > client to get it working again.  Does anyone
> > know where I could find
> > > > such a client?
> > >
> > >
> >
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/misc/socks-linux-src.tgz
> > > contains the SOCKS proxy server, in addition to a
> > few pre-configured
> > > utilities which have been SOCKified (telnet, etc).
> >  Netscape already has
> > > native support for SOCKS, by the way; check the
> > Proxies section, under
> > > Network Preferences.
> > >
> > > For more information, see the Firewall-HOWTO at
> > http://www.linux-howto.com/
> > >
> > > -mct
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
> > >
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
> > 
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
> 


_______________________________________________
Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug