Actually, in practice Free has been less secure. Not as much less as the
penguin, but less than OpenBSD. There *is* a reason OBSD has a very unique
moniker with respect to their default install.

And who has telnet enabled on a server anyway?[1]

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA

[1] I assume you really meant ssh (secure shell), in which case yes, it was
vulnerable as well.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:07 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: RE: Kinda OT -- Firewall servers and the like (home use)
> 
> 
> 
> >and FreeBSD when doing general services where security is 
> less of a concern
> 
> but no less secure in practice.  :))
> 
> eg, obsd had the same vulnerabilities a *bsd to last year's 
> bsd telnet.
> 
> For this home situation, FreeBSD would be the much easier setup, with 
> choice of ipfw2 or ipfilter.
> 
> Len
> 
> 
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