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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:09:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      krzysztof Strzelczyk <cs052279@yahoo.com>
To:        "N. J. Cash" <ncash@pei.eastlink.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: telnet / ipfw question
Message-ID:  <20020314190936.3548.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C90E4F9.A4CA41CA@centtech.com>

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Why not use ssh?

Of course you will want 3.1 to avoid the fiasco last
week.

-Chris
--- Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote:
> Why do you need telnet so badly?  The rules are
> fine, but those won't matter
> when someone sniffs your plain text password and
> source ip, then spoofs it and
> logs in as you.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> "N. J. Cash" wrote:
> > 
> > I have telnet enabled on my system running
> 4.5-stable and have it hidden
> > behind very strick ipfw rules so that the only IP
> that has access to the box
> > on port 23 is my home static IP, everything else
> is denied by the firewall.
> > I'm well aware of the risks of having telnet open
> and how insecure it can be
> > so, i'm just looking for some input here if this
> sounds like a safe way to
> > have the daemon running on a system. Would there
> still be security risks
> > involved
> > that i'm not aware about running it this way?
> > 
> > Here's basically what's going on in ipfw for port
> 23.
> > 
> > ipfw add 1400 allow log tcp from x.x.myip.x.x to
> any 23
> > ipfw add 09000 deny log ip from any to any
> > 
> > Look safe ?
> > 
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> the message
> 
> -- 
>
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