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29.1 Secure SHell

29.1.2 What SSH Does Not Do

SSH does not protect you from anyone having root access on your local machine or on the server machine. Root on either of these machines could monitor your session or replace programs with trojan horses. So basic security on the client and server machines still needs to be maintained.


Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996
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