Preventing users from loggin into a unix box

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Thu Apr 19 16:43:38 2001

On April 19, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
> True. I guess I just assume everyone runs ssh now. :) I'd recommend against
> telent or rlogin regardless of what port you use. Just too dangerous to
> have plain text passwords traveling over ethernet, even if it never
> gets outside of the company firewall. You never can tell if that windows box
> next door has a packet sniffer.

  Not everyone runs ssh nowadays. For networks of more than a handful
of machines, it just doesn't seem to scale well enough, as nice as it
is. For larger networks a central network authentication system like
Kerberos is much more suitable, in my opinion.


             -Dave McGuire
Received on Thu Apr 19 2001 - 16:43:38 BST