On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Matt Piechota wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Nate Williams wrote: > > > [...telnetd exploit allows anyone root access...] > > I must have misspoke. There's only 4 of us that have the root password on > our machines, but we 4 telnet everywhere as root. And just horrify > everyone, my lead actaully runs X as root, as did I for awhile. > > > Having the users enable it by default makes them more aware of what's > > going on. (Although, one could argue that all the folks who are still > > infected with CodeRed initially enabled it, and have done nothing > > since...) > > I completely agree. I like the way RedHat 7.1 disables almost everything > on install. One could argue that they shouldn't even install sshd, since > they may well have a bug in it as well. Makes it awfully tough to manage a rack of boxen remotely... -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message