Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Benjamin Sonntag] > ..... >>Ok, but the /etc/default/backdoor file will certainly not change since >>this init script grew better ... >> >>I found #783 : http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=783 >>for this issue, but it is closed. If the bug is still here, we should >>reopen it. > > I'm not sure if that is the exact problem. I just remember that there > are problems with the backdoor script. >
The backdoor script was a hack created by yours truly, to allow remote connection to an installation where inbound ssh was blocked, but outbound ssh was accepted. I did not want to submit the hack, but someone asked me gently, and I submitted it. If you look on a server that's using open-backdoor, you will see that ther might be several instances of it running. If you try to kill the running backdoor with /etc/init.d/open-backdoor stop, you will find that it's still running. I Myself has not used it since ages, but find it from time to time on other servers, and most of the times, the person(s) that has set backdoor up has forgotten all about them. I've changed into using a combination of ssh+ppp, which is much nicer if you manage a lot of servers (like I do), but a bit more work to set up. I would suggest we use remove open-backdoor, and tell people about openvpn or the possibility of using ssh+ppp. The script I use now is still a hack, but when monitored, they do work. But I do not want to include such a feature now, close to the release. I believe there were far to changes already in our scripts, and we have caused a lot of extra work. -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ Debian-edu developer and Solution provider EE2A71C6403A3D191FCDC043006F1215062E6642 062E6642 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
