Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:01:17 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Brandon Joseph Adams" <bja@illinois.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: training (was Resourceful BSD/Linux NetworkAdministrator) Message-ID: <p06002014bd0f396671f1@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <32866.192.168.1.238.1089024343.squirrel@Illinois.DynDNS.Org> References: <20040704121112.GK43549@iconoplex.co.uk><Pine.LNX.4.43.04070506561 30.3996-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net><32837.192.168.1.238.1089022 879.squirrel@Illinois.DynDNS.Org><200407051108.08551.racerx@makewo rld.com> <p06002012bd0f2f000232@[10.0.1.3]> <32866.192.168.1.238.1089024343.squirrel@Illinois.DynDNS.Org>
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At 10:45 AM +0000 2004-07-05, Brandon Joseph Adams wrote:
> From experience, setting a FreeBSD box on the internet without any clue as
> to what was going on, there are more than enough people willing to break
> your box for you that'll leave you with a mess to clean up. I'm not trying
> to be funny, this is the truth.
That's a different class of problem. As a system admin, you're
going to be responsible for fixing not only those very few systems
which have been compromised by external attackers, but also the > 90%
break-ins which have come from inside personnel exceeding their
authorized level of access, as well as the machines which have been
munged because you (or one of your co-workers) fat-fingered something.
Just leaving an open box on the 'net and trying to fix whatever
comes up is a very poor way to try to learn about all those other
classes of problems.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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