Ian Marchak wrote:
>
> > P.S. I *LIVE* as root on my systems as well. Know what's gonna happen
> > BEFORE you hit enter. No better way to condition yourself to PAY
> > ATTENTION to what you're doing :-)
>
> I'll leave this one for Skippy. :-)
No point in leaving this to me, as i am on recor
This will be my final post in this thread, as its glaringly apparent
that you have no clue what you're even talking about, much less,
doing.
--- JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:23 PM 9/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Do let us know if you feel the same way once your entire network is
> >ow
Jay Nugent wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, JW wrote:
>
>No flame from me. I don't like firewalls either. They block ONLY
> those ports that you're not running servers on. But if I'm already NOT
> running services on those ports, what's the point?
If you are dealing with
JW wrote:
> > Oh! This is it! If I'm a screwup and I accidentally run a service I
> >didn't intend to, I guess I've just exposed myself, without a firewall.
>
> There are as many chances of me accidently shutting down the firewall then there are
>of me turning on a service unintentionally.
JW wrote:
> >
> >P.S. I *LIVE* as root on my systems as well.
>
> Well I don't, and I suggest you don't do it either. People like you will potentially
>make it possible for worms and virii to get around > on a few UNIX boxes.
Man oh man, after reading what you've said in your previous message
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 22:38 pm, Jay Nugent wrote:
> No flame from me. I don't like firewalls either. They block ONLY
> those ports that you're not running servers on. But if I'm already NOT
> running services on those ports, what's the point?
>
> Oh! This is it! If I'm a screwup
At 10:38 PM 9/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> No flame from me. I don't like firewalls either. They block ONLY
>those ports that you're not running servers on. But if I'm already NOT
>running services on those ports, what's the point?
Bingo.
> Oh! This is it! If I'm a screwup and I acciden
At 07:23 PM 9/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Do let us know if you feel the same way once your entire network is
>owned.
Oh, to be sure...
Apparently you are not familiar with OTP (One time passwords) and secure
>keys.
True, but I don't see how what that has to do with firewalls.
>No, using a dec
Greetings,
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, JW wrote:
> >> 7. Firewalls
> >>Need to look into firewalls and packet filters, though I fail to have
> >> any confidence in them.
> >
> >You're not running a firewall??
>
> Ah, I knew that would produce results. I admit I have not done a whole lot of
>lo
--- JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 09:42 PM 9/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >> 7. Firewalls
> >>Need to look into firewalls and packet filters, though I fail to
> have
> >> any confidence in them.
> >
> >You're not running a firewall??
>
> Ah, I knew that would produce results. I admit
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 22:00 pm, JW wrote:
> Ah, I knew that would produce results. I admit I have not done a whole lot
> of looking into firewalls, but I must say, they seem to be fairly useless
> in my sight.
Rather than write a snotty retort to most of your statements, may I just say
At 09:42 PM 9/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 12 September 2001 20:13 pm, JW wrote:
>> 6. Monitoring and Logs
>>Need to investigate ways to monitor logs. All the professionals strongly
>> advocate monitoring logs. This is a good way of catching system errors and
>> failures before they
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