Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:06:28 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>, Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net>, Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console Message-ID: <20010514230628.N2009@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105142258130.79606-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>; from tom@uniserve.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:00:54PM -0700 References: <f0433015eb72655a096f0@[10.0.1.100]> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105142258130.79606-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>
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* Tom <tom@uniserve.com> [010514 23:02] wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > How are you preventing unauthorized access via the PM2? I haven't > > found any way to prevent it. > > What do you mean? First of all, you assign a password to the account > used for serial port access. Then you assign filters on the ethernet > interface to prevent telnet access from anything but known hosts. Then > you do the same thing on your gateway router. Uh.. Still using telnet over the wild world of the net? Here's what I do, i use a crossover to a stable barely used machine and a serial connection as a backup from another machine. Another option is using a modem to dial in directly into the thing. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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