From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 14 23: 6:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03A837B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 23:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f4F66Sn07824; Mon, 14 May 2001 23:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:06:28 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Tom Cc: Doug Hardie , Jason DiCioccio , Nick Barnes , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console Message-ID: <20010514230628.N2009@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tom@uniserve.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:00:54PM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Tom [010514 23:02] wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > How are you preventing unauthorized access via the PM2? I haven't > > found any way to prevent it. > > What do you mean? First of all, you assign a password to the account > used for serial port access. Then you assign filters on the ethernet > interface to prevent telnet access from anything but known hosts. Then > you do the same thing on your gateway router. Uh.. Still using telnet over the wild world of the net? Here's what I do, i use a crossover to a stable barely used machine and a serial connection as a backup from another machine. Another option is using a modem to dial in directly into the thing. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message