Re: Help for a first time user...


Subject: Re: Help for a first time user...
From: Zach Marano (list@hernect.dhs.org)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 08:01:25 MST


I know I shouldn't run everything on one machine but it's all I've got and
besides nothing is that important here. This is all very experimental
anyway.

> From: Florian Kohl <floh@blafasel.org>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:17:49 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Help for a first time user...
>
> <snip>
>> there's telnet. Remote admin is something Unix was doing via telnet since
>> day one.
> </snip>
>
> telnet is evil!!
>
> use ssh... Telnet sends clear text passwords and the traffic is not
> encrypted... so it is easy for a man in the middle to sniff your passwords
> and/or takeover your telnet season
>
> WuFTPd which is the standard FTPd for most linux Distributions has more
> holes (securitywise) then a good piece of swiss chesse (sorry, but itīs
> slightly after lunchtime over here, and I guess I had to skip lunch ;-( )
> Use ProFTPd or similar
> http://www.securityfocus.com and search for WuFTPd and you find more
> exploits then you can read throgh
>
> (and you might consider not running all of the services on one machine, as
> this would mean a single point of failure for web, mail, ftp, internet
> connectivity)
>
> just my 2c (or 10Pfennig)
>
> -floh
>
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