Am Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 07:08 schrieb David Howdle:
> Hello All,
>
> I'd be interested to hear your views on ways to secure a wireless LTSP
> implementation.
>
> Asides from WEP and MAC filtering on the AP are there any more advanced
> methods that can be used to secure wireless LTSP?

I heard some whistling that LTSP 4.1 (to be expected in the near future, end 
of the month or so) will be supporting X over SSH tunnels (which is no too 
hard thing, usually, for applications - I'm just still wondering how that 
will work with login managers like kdm). However, having SSH security will 
push things much forward in terms of security.

For a wireless setup, there is anyway data local to the client (namely WEP 
information), so there should only be very few tweaking necessary to also 
store ssh keys there, so additional SSH client device 
identification/authentication could take place.

I'm really interested in what will go on on that topic and I'm positive that 
jammcq will once again give us some great improvements.

For my personal network, I have an access point on which I turned SSID 
broadcasts off. That will at least keep script kiddies in the neighbourhood 
away from force-breaking my WLAN WEP string :-)

I heard experts telling users to change WEP key stuff at least every month, 
this should furher decrease risk, but I'm much too lazy for that. The people 
who know that the backdoor lock is broken could come into our house network 
as well ;-)

> For instance, is it possible to use CISCO LEAP with LTSP?

Sorry, I have no idea what *that* is.

Regards,

Anselm


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