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...
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