Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:57:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> To: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@polkan2.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108180249530.1887-100000@ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108180041390.92972-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > The best environment for development is > when any service is enabled and all users have blank passwords so that > anyone can use anyone's machine. That's crazy. There's no audit trail. If nothing else, one disgruntled employee can wreak havoc without anyone even knowning who it was. > Putty is absolutely the best for Win32: Putty is great. I use it and love it, but with no X11 forwarding it is NOT the absolute best. > And finally setup your telnetd so that it will print a message saying > "telnet is insecure. please use ssh" etc. It will display this message, > sleep for 60 seconds and then run normal telnetd. Most people will just > sit there and wait for 60 seconds, then use telnet. After one or two month > of this torture disable telnetd for good (keep the message, but don't run > telnetd). People will download ssh and think "Thank God, I don't have to > wait for 60 seconds now! I love that SSH thing!" > That's what our sysadmin did (shell server used by some 4000 undergrads) > and it worked. Now this is a great idea! I think I'll give it a try. Thanks for passing it on. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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