Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 23:58:57 -0700 From: Ben <ben@stonehenge-net.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSHD Problems... Message-ID: <3ACD6932.A654FB@stonehenge-net.com> References: <000e01c0be64$c4db7e60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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ok, i'll bite. why is it wrong/bad to be more secure? you keep saying that you don't want security features on your machine... why not? why do you turn them off? how are they in your way? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:There's nothing wrong with adding ssh, pam, Kerberos, tcpwrappers, yadda, > yadda, yadda into FreeBSD. But, there something VERY wrong when all that > crap is switched ON by default, and after I install FreeBSD I have to waste > many minutes switching it off. I also didn't appreciate the automatic > assumption that all FreeBSD installers _want_ MD5 encrypted passwords, the > change of which was made some time ago. > > Let all the people that want all the security features switched on go > to the trouble of turning them on. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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