From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 26 15:36:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28836 for security-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA28817 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA11672; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:36:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:36:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Scanner To: Almost Anonymous cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Secure Out Of The Box? In-Reply-To: <31C86AF7.3517@narf.castroms.moreland.k12.ca.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Almost Anonymous wrote: > 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! r00t is a group of know nothing script kiddies. Your linux can is not a shock. But if you implement tcp_wrappers, and ipfw i would tell you to not break sweat about r00t. Half of them dont even hack, the other half are irc lusers who hang on #hack. Bah. lame lame lame. -- ===================================| Webspan Inc., ISP Division. FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! | Phone: 908-367-8030 ext. 126 -----------------------------------| 500 West Kennedy Blvd., Lakewood, NJ-08701 Turning PCs into Workstations | E-Mail: scanner@webspan.net http://www.freebsd.org | SysAdmin / Network Engineer / Security ===================================| Member BSDNET team! http://www.bsdnet.org