Not likely unless enough people ask for it:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

But note that there are 3rd-party Airport basestation configuration utilities available - maybe one of these will allow you to configure more ports.

Carlos, as I clearly stated, I'd need to control at least one machine somewhere on the route between you and the server you use with cleartext passwords to sniff packets.
Given that, all your passwords are mine.

How easily and by whom that physical or administrative access can be gained, varies quite a lot.

And it should be up to everyone to assess that risk.

But you'll probably agree that denying how easy it is to sniff cleartext traffic, even in most switched contexts, is no less than a misrepresentation of the truth.

trevor provided some pointers to more sniffing-tools, they're readily available and easy to use.

In security matters, one should always err to the safe side and those who are unaware of risks should be informed.

However, with only the data you volonteer and provided all of your systems are correctly administered, and no doubt they are, +I+ would not be able to sniff passwords.
But are you sure the switches at your colo are immune to an ARP-spoofing rack-neighbour ?

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for a 100 bucks even i'd try , and i've never hacked anything lol

You're challenging me to break the law for $100? The answer is clearly no. Please don't ever ask me to do anything illegal again.

Sniffing requires having an account on a box on your subnet, or on a router over which your data passes. Since I (presumably) am not on your subnet, and don't own any of the routers between you and your remote servers, it is not a matter of simply installing dsniff.

So, I would first have to break into someone else's computer. This would be a computer owned by someone else who has not asked to be broken into. This is not the kind of person I am, and I hope that this is not the kind of forum that condones those things.

Trevor

Guys you're all pretty brilliant, you keep arguing like this, you're gonna just look dumber and dumber.....so boys don't make me seperate you :D

Very nice! I get ttyp# perfectly, where # is the terminal window(s) that I have open.

Am I supposed to get the error
ps: /dev/ttyconsole: No such file or directory
? That is presumably the GUI user logged in.

Trevor

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yea i get it too, it is because at work when we had unix, it presumes a few things that don't apply on a mac...i am sure it could be fixed, but i just ignore it.

:rolleyes: Uh huh. Right. It's not against the law if I tell you to do it. Do you think I break the law every time I attack one of my clients' systems for vulnerability testing?

Yup. I'm out. I don't feel like explaining theory vs. reality once again.