On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 1/25/2002 05:54 PM -0800, you wrote: > >Protecting Newbies can only go so far. There is point at which the newbie > >has to get up to speed to maintain his/her system in a secure [1] state. > >RHN does this quite nicely and easily. > > > >[1] secure is defined by you as your needs and requirements will vary > > with the application or situation you are managing. > > Agree 100%. It's just that I've been advocating telnet-server off and sshd > on as factory default for awhile now; that kind of thing should be taken as > far as possible. Leave the guy/gal telnet and telnet-server so they're > available if needed; but don't make insecure choices when the more secure > choice has no real downside. > > People configuring Cisco routers that only have telnet had better know > enough to take care of themselves; they don't count! Newbies, if shown sshd > and ssh instead of telnet, will use them interchangeably; so why not start > them off on the right foot?
Couldn't agree with you more. In pondering the gent's message to which I replied, I wonder if he thought that openssh was not installed by default? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
