Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:14:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>, Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net>, Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105142311140.79606-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010514230628.N2009@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Tom <tom@uniserve.com> [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. It is all the PM2e supports. So if that is what you are using, you need to use telnet. Besides a console server should never really be on the Internet anyway. In fact, using dial-up access only (PM2e supports dial-back for excellent dial security) is probably the way to go. > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] > Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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