From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 19 21:20:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-237.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE4537B401 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f5K4Kai24543; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:20:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:20:09 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: "Orville R. Weyrich.Jr" Cc: bv@wjv.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securing the root account Message-ID: <20010620002009.A24514@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20010619142141.C20724@wjv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from orville@weyrich.com on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:20:02PM -0700 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:20:02PM -0700, Orville R. Weyrich.Jr thus sprach: > Speaking of SSH, are there any recommended SSH clients for Windows 95? Putty. Don't recall where I got it though. It's free > > orville. > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > > Get rid of all telnet account and put in SSH so that no clear text > > passwords ever cross the net. That's just a small step on the > > way, to locking down a system, but just changing login names won't > > do it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. Weyrich Computer Consulting > mailto:orville@weyrich.com KD7HJV http://www.weyrich.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our online collection of book reviews: > > http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/ > > Ask about our world wide web services! > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message