Re: ADSL and iMac and Linux


Luis Villa (liv@duke.edu)
Sat, 1 May 1999 22:46:40 -0400 (EDT)


While we are on the subject, has anyone attempted to compile ssh (either
v1 or 2) on yellowdog? I've had problems with building it on my intel
system, and would be anxious to install it on my friend's machine. I know
it would be vaguely illegal to post a binary, so I'm not asking for that-
just wondering if anyone has done it.

On Sat, 1 May 1999 bartosh@apple.tamu.edu wrote:
>
> There are plenty of ways to make your machine more than secure enought to
> be in the general public- esp if you do not advertise its existence, and
> cut off everything like telnet, ftp, r*, finger, etc.

If you don't want to shut off ftp, you can at least make sure that there
are no anonymous logins. Ditto SMB.
 
> You can never be 100% secure, but if you cut off enough services and keep
> allyour daemons current, (and do not advertise the existence of your
> machine and do all the human-safe things like not giving out accounts-
> esp, of course privlidged ones) it can be secure enough that people will
> look elsewhere to commit their pranks.

Currency is very key- our school's central mail server got cracked by
someone with a whole that had been ID'd some time before, but not patched
until three days AFTER the crack. By then it was too late and the intruder
had access to roughly 2000 email accounts. So frequent patching is key.

I'm curious- does YellowDog issue security alerts here? Or is there
another place I should look for patches/updates? This is an important one...
Luis

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