Sorry I missed the begining.
I agree that sshd must be installed on ALL machines, servers or
workstations. Morover Telnet should only be authorised from localhost only
on ALL Machines (may be even disabled!).
BTW, there were a site where you could get all the Mandrake crypto rpms
using rsync. Which site is it ?
Franck Martin
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SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Fiji
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Stodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 2:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] ssh
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>
> This is false. SSH must be installed BECAUSE it's a workstation. Since a
> Workstation is going to be managed by a SysAdmin then he/she needs to
> connect to it securly so he/she can admin it. Espicially when root
> passwords will be thrown around to "fix", "maintain", or install new
> software on the machine.
>
> SSH is always needed. End of story. I admin over 120 Machines some of
> which are across the Pacific (i'm in Pasadena at JPL and we manage
> machines in Hawaii for the Keck Observitory), Across the desert (goldstone
> where radio dishs are located), and up mountains (Palamor Observitory). I
> rely on SSHD to connect to these clients securly all the time. And they
> are all workstations. SSHD is 185k of magic. No resone not to install it
> on a workstation.
Somebody better tell Pixel, then.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
