Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 16:54:18 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: peter.lai@uconn.edu, Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> Cc: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, SolarfluX <solarflux@ziplip.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup/install over ssh? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020506165140.04f536b0@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <20020506173553.A15713@cowbert.2y.net> References: <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> <20020506231634.A33284@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>
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At 05:35 PM 5/6/2002 -0400, Peter C. Lai wrote: >I'd rather advertise my box as FreeBSD and not Linux. Tends to >limit the amount of people trying to crack the box using stuff >like old RPC hacks :) I disagree. My FeeeBSD systems saw lots and lots of rpc and other 'linux like' exploitation scans before I just filtered most ports at my firewall. Don't rely on the sophistication of a kiddie's script as a security paradigm. >-- >Peter C. Lai >University of Connecticut >Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant >http://cowbert.2y.net/ -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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