Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:49:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108182248410.2097-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20010818150053.C4969-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Matt Piechota wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Nate Williams wrote:
>
> > [...telnetd exploit allows anyone root access...]
>
> I must have misspoke. There's only 4 of us that have the root password on
> our machines, but we 4 telnet everywhere as root. And just horrify
> everyone, my lead actaully runs X as root, as did I for awhile.
>
> > Having the users enable it by default makes them more aware of what's
> > going on. (Although, one could argue that all the folks who are still
> > infected with CodeRed initially enabled it, and have done nothing
> > since...)
>
> I completely agree. I like the way RedHat 7.1 disables almost everything
> on install. One could argue that they shouldn't even install sshd, since
> they may well have a bug in it as well.
Makes it awfully tough to manage a rack of boxen remotely...
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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