Magnus,
1. What in God's name would you want to protect on an STN disk anyway?
2. Security: I set my system to internal admin only.
BTW, I went to one of those "we want to sell you some expensive
-BULLSHIT- "firewall" software blah blah blah blah sites.
(dslreports.com, for example) and used their "let us test your system's
security" feature - so that it could tell me how much a piece of s**t my
system was, and how desperately I needed to spend the $$$ to buy their
software!!
Results: It banged on my system six ways from Sunday - and came to the
conclusion "you must already OWN our software - your system is proteced
so well!!"
Ergo - unless you do something stupid like opening up a s-load of ports,
your system's security should be pretty darn solid behind the STN
"firewall".....
Let it write the disk.....
Jim
trist post wrote:
> Thank you Lyle,
>
> I was just confused because I am quite sure I have seen it mentioned on
> the
> STN homepage or in this newsgroup that it is an advantage to run STN
> from a
> floppy (comjparted to HD) because it can be write protected...
>
> Well, never mind - I can replace the floppy now and then... If there is
> writing going on to it it will not last forever anyhow.
>
> Regards Magnus
>
>
> >From: Lyle Giese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [STN] Cant write protect floppy!
> >Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 06:15:44 -0800
> >
> >Linux(like Windows) needs to be able to write temporary files to it's
> >boot
> >device. When you boot from a floppy, that is the boot device hence the
> >kernal panic if you write protect the floppy or remove it while STN is
> >running. STN does utilize a RAM disk, but it's boot device is the
> >floppy.
> >
> >DHCP servers write their database to the boot device so that it knows
> >what
> >IP addresses are given out when rebooted. If it wrote the database to
> >the
> >RAM disk and you rebooted the STN or kicked the cord out of that
> >computer?
> >If it wasn't written in a database file somewhere, STN would start
> >issuing
> >IP addresses already in use.
> >
> >STN has so few services on it, that even if someone managed to get into
> >it
> >there isn't much you can do with it. The biggest thing is a)disable or
> >make
> >the web admin interface internal only or if you have to have external
> >web
> >admin b)put a strong password on it and change it often.
> >
> >The other excellent method of protecting that floppy is to replace it
> >weekly. The only downside is the dhcp database. But if you shut down
> >all
> >client computers, change the floppy on STN and then restart all
> >computers,
> >then they will get new IP addresses from the DHCP server and all will be
> >well with the world.
> >
> >Lyle
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: trist post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:37 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [STN] Cant write protect floppy!
> >
> >
> >I have a strange problem. I have read more than once that it should be
> >possible to write protect the floppy (to prevent "intruders" from
> >changing
> >the configuration files etc) but when I try this STN do not boot
> >properly
> >claiming that there is no configuration files!
> >
> >If I boot without write protect and then take out the diskette, protect
> >it
> >and set it back STN will fail later (kernel panic, illegal sector or
> >something like that).
> >
> >I have also noticed that STN seem to access the floppy (I do not know if
> >it
> >is read or write) every time a DHCP request is received from my internal
> >network - this is also a surprise since I thought STN run only versus
> >RAM-disk once it had booted.
> >
> >Any sugestions?
> >
> >Regards
> >Magnus
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