On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:12:48PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > I would recommend using firewall rules rather than DENY/ALLOW as they > are stronger protections. I'd recommend exterminating telnet entirely > but providing you have total trust in anyone on your local lans, no > wireless links and so on then its obviously easier to relax and not use > encryption.
Yes and no. At home, I have most of the above--well, I do have a wireless link, but it uses WEP and frankly, since the access point is in my basement, the signal doesn't reach the street and I'm quite confident my nieghbors on either side wouldn't know what to do with 802.11b if it bit them--and I still use ssh, even internally, mostly because it completely eliminates having to deal with manually setting xhost values and DISPLAY as I hop from machine to machine. Plus it's much easier to put my public key in authorized_keys for all my machines, and then I only have to remember a single passphrase and I don't have to care what the passwords on the accounts are, or even if they have typable passwords. Adam
