Re: sshd revealing too much stuff.

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Radcliffe
Graywane [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably said: Yes, it is security by obscurity and no, most people thinking about security on the net do not believe it is an effective technique to secure a site. You secure a site by: Security by obscurity is a bad thing to _rely_ on, but why make it any easier

Re: sshd revealing too much stuff.

2001-03-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:22:13AM -0500, Peter Radcliffe wrote: Graywane [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably said: Yes, it is security by obscurity and no, most people thinking about security on the net do not believe it is an effective technique to secure a site. You secure a site by: Security

Re: sshd revealing too much stuff.

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Radcliffe
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably said: Making it easy for the _administrator_ to get information that is useful for administration is a good thing. This can be done without providing the same information to an attacker. Think about the audit for vulnerable versions of SSH using

Re: sshd revealing too much stuff.

2001-03-24 Thread Duwde (Fabio V. Dias)
There is little sense to post this back, anyway I want to make things clear. It's really incredible how a few people can laught on something they don't understand. Please try to understand what I'm saying This super secret place wouldn't happen to be: Received: from astral.isec.com.br

Re: sshd revealing too much stuff.

2001-03-24 Thread Graywane
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:28:36AM -0300, Duwde (Fabio V. Dias) wrote: I don't think this is a good aproach. Nor does many people on the net thinking about security. And no, this ISN'T security by obscurity, I just don't like to let anyone know more than they need. If you don't care, I don't