From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 26 14:16:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13072 for security-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13008 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:15:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from also-27.ppp.hooked.net (bass-56.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.8.120]) by mom.hooked.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA15442 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <31C86AF7.3517@narf.castroms.moreland.k12.ca.us> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:02:47 -0700 From: Almost Anonymous Organization: Manx Consulting Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: security@freebsd.org Subject: How Secure Out Of The Box? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am sure this has been asked 15 million times over, but here it is again: How secure is FreeBSD out of the box? Assuming I didn't have an account on the system, and the passwords are protected and well made (IE: efgREG739FJFhkh could be root), how easy/hard is it to crack? We have had some attempts (and 1 successfull on a linux box at the District Office) on a FreeBSD machine from a group called r00t, and I wanted to make sure that my precious little box is secure. Thanks for your time! --matt Clark