> you are now dependant upon > your entire network area between the client and server box being secure, > >From VM/CMS in an LPAR to a Linux guest in that same LPAR? Ought to be pretty >secure. Never goes out over the real network at all. Totally internal to the >machine.
"Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)856-5940 VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Alan Cox > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Changing runlevels etc > > On Gwe, 2003-06-27 at 18:47, Adam Thornton wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:33, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > > There are a few cases when you have to use ftp instead of scp. Like > > > transferring files to and from an VM/CMS system. ssh is not implemented on VM, > > > more's the pity. > > > > Use sf/UFT with IP-based filtering. At least then you're not passing > > cleartext passwords everywhere. > > Its still very insecure in most networks, you are now dependant upon > your entire network area between the client and server box being secure, > meaning every box that is directly on that network (including notionally > seperated by switches) > > Cleartext is bad, it only takes one windows trojan with a password > sniffer > >
