On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:57 +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: > "Dean Michael C. Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think it's very wise for system administrators and users even to > > just let anyone access their boxes via ssh. Even if there are a lot of > > security measures in place, letting someone in through the front door is > > hardly a good idea. ;) > > True. For the most part, those that do offer ssh often do so that they > could do collaborative work online. Debian is one such example, > providing ssh access to its machines for its developers. Another is > metawire.org. >
If you look at it that way, I can ssh also to sourceforge -- since I have projects already up there. But if you think about it, they are really restricted shell access which only allows you to do very limited things. Of course, this is because they keep security in mind. And if what you want to do is something malicious like say, OWN another box using that shell account, then it would be harder if not impossible using the shell accounts in these free ssh servers. :D -- Dean Michael C. Berris < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Key: 0x08AE6EAC http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com Mobile: +63 921 7841815
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