From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 1 0:32:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from walter.dfmm.org (walter.dfmm.org [209.151.233.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E807737B41A for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 80470 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Apr 2002 08:32:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Apr 2002 08:32:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:32:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Stone X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: SSH or Telnet? In-Reply-To: <004101c1d800$a4a71ee0$6401a8c0@router.unknown.ca> Message-ID: <20020401003026.D2704-100000@walter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I would also recomend that you restrict access to ssh using > /etc/hosts.allow if you would like some added security to just who all > can ssh to your box. ipfw (or whatever) rules are preferable to /etc/hosts.allow rules, because if there's a buffer overrun, it can probablly be exploited before /etc/hosts.allow is even opened, whereas ipfw rules prevent the exploitative packets from ever reaching the sshd. -Jason ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: See https://private.idealab.com/public/jason/jason.gpg iD8DBQE8qBszswXMWWtptckRArhtAJ0Z3g8P7iwCdd/0yOoZncXzR8evNQCg9Fmc ZtOdVrJWMFRAPFBh140o0xY= =09oC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message