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Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:08:08 +0100
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Giorgos writes:

> I let people login as normal users on my workstation
> from places like New Zealand, Australia or Canada ...

Via telnet or SSH?

Is there any danger in allowing telnet login of unprivileged users on a system,
apart from the possibility of compromise of the user's own account?  That is,
can one safely set up, say, a guest account and allow telnet login to it without
any danger to the system as a whole from unusual compromises of the telnet
protocol (if any)?

> ... only one user is in the `wheel' group (and is
> allowed to use su(1) to become root) and
> that is my own personal user account.

Do you telnet or SSH on your own account?


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