Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:40:45 +1100 From: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> To: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disallow remote login by regular user. Message-ID: <20000117004045.G14280@comcen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200001161255.GAA19043@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> References: <20000116214058.D14280@comcen.com.au> <200001161255.GAA19043@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:55:46AM -0600, Igor Roshchin wrote:
>
> I realize that everybody might have local rather weird situation.
> However, it sounds like you have some problems which are not related
> to the _system_ administration, but just to the _personnel_ administration.
Show me a site that doesn't :-) How many incidents are the result of a
mistake or lack of insight/understanding or communication of the personnel?
Enough to make optimistic predictions about future staff actions unwise.
> I mean that you are trying protect your machine from somebody else,
> changing its configuration (modification of /etc/shells, /etc/inetd.conf)..
>
> System can not be made fool-proof from one who has root-priveleges. :)
Certainly :-) That doesn't mean one should stop offering extra precautions.
Even if they don't deserve protection from themselves, their users do.
For this particular machine, the security/convenience balance can
afford to sway towards less convenient and more safe, so why not.
> Let me through in one more stone in this pile of solutions.
> Unless I missed it, nobody has mentioned it yet.
>
> One can configure tcpd (tcpwrappers) - "hosts.deny" (hosts.allow) file
> to disallow any external access from any host via any protocol,
> while allowing connections from specific hosts via specific protocols.
>
> While this does not do any per user access limitations, it still
> can help you or other folks asking earlier in armoring their boxes.
>
> Hope, this helps...
Thanks :-)
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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