Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:33:30 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Brad Lisoweski <brad.lisoweski@siemens.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is port 22 open by default? Message-ID: <200305072233.30197.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <60684F9727113D438523F4B5BD9207DE42F8F3@troll3.trangosoft.com> References: <60684F9727113D438523F4B5BD9207DE42F8F3@troll3.trangosoft.com>
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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 20:03, Brad Lisoweski wrote: > Would you rather have telnet open? > > IMHO, SSH is secure, and is fine to be open by default. If you are > paranoid, compile ipfilter or ipfw into your kernel and block access to > port 22. Thanks for your reply. I run a shell server, so I need SSH. I'm still relatively new to all this, so I figured if it is open by default, it must be secure. Before I thought that easily exploitable holes are regularly discovered in SSH. Daniela
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