From owner-freebsd-security Sat Aug 18 18:43:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-server2.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server2.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EF037B407 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wade@ezri.org) Received: from ezri (242687hfc133.tampabay.rr.com [24.26.87.133]) by smtp-server2.tampabay.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f7J1hVj22828 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:43:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Wade Majors" To: Subject: RE: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:43:06 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010818150053.C4969-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2512.0001 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Agreed, but given the recent telnetd exploit, I'm not sure you want it > > on by default. Even in our heavily-firewalled environment, we don't > > want *ALL* of the users to have root access on our FreBSD boxes. :) > > I must have misspoke. There's only 4 of us that have the root password on > our machines, but we 4 telnet everywhere as root. And just horrify > everyone, my lead actaully runs X as root, as did I for awhile. > I believe he was referring to the recent telnetd root exploit. A disgrunted, bored, and/or curious employee can be just as dangerous as someone on the outside. -Wade To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message