Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:45:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net> Cc: John Brown <jbrown@vafibre.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote Administration Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970821094232.10149A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970821113854.30636A-100000@sailfish.exis.net>
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Stefan Molnar wrote: > > > I am setting up an ISP server running FreeBSD and would like to deny all > > shell access to my server but keep myself a way to get into the server for > > remote administration. Any ideas on the best way to accomplish this? > > You could make a special port ready that will give a login besides the > standard telnet port. So when you want to get in just > telnet hostname 9452 But if someone strobes the system then it would be > found. Also you can setup your machine to only accect telnets from a > set of hosts and use another machine of yours to login from. Actually, I'd suggest installing ssh, and I *THINK* you can disable all telnet and rcmd stuff, and ssh has pretty good access control.
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