From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 21:02:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2627E37B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 21:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilzcluster.liwest.at (lilzclust02.liwest.at [212.33.55.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9D643F3F for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 21:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm58-27.liwest.at by lilzcluster.liwest.at (8.10.2/1.1.2.11/08Jun01-1123AM) id h4942Gn0001475052; Fri, 9 May 2003 06:02:16 +0200 (MEST) From: Daniela To: Kirill Pisman , questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 06:02:58 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200305072159.14539.dgw@liwest.at> <4716782291.20030508154355@ngs.ru> In-Reply-To: <4716782291.20030508154355@ngs.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305090602.58610.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Re: Why is port 22 open by default? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 04:02:23 -0000 On Thursday 08 May 2003 08:43, Kirill Pisman wrote: > Hello Daniela, > > Thursday, May 8, 2003, 4:59:14 AM, you wrote: > > D> I was just wondering: > D> Is SSH really so secure that it can be on by default? > > D> I'm really paranoid, and I could sleep better if the answer was yes :-) > > if you *REALY* paranoid you can juct switch your computer off :) > > if you are fully trust your local area network there is no reaseon to > afraid (but passwords) , othervice there is some 'pantom menace' > that ssh could de cracked by someone , who will dump all the > connections to your computer all the time Is there some way to prevent this?