Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:25:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! Message-ID: <200009222125.PAA71625@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:22:16 MDT." <200009222122.e8MLMG117534@orthanc.ab.ca> References: <200009222122.e8MLMG117534@orthanc.ab.ca>
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In message <200009222122.e8MLMG117534@orthanc.ab.ca> Lyndon Nerenberg writes: : >>>>> "Warner" == Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes: : : Warner> When are they secure? The only case I can think of is : Warner> when they are used on an isolated network that isn't : Warner> connected to the outside world and all the users on that : Warner> isolated network are trusted. Seems like a very limited : Warner> subset of FreeBSD users in general. : : Sounds like most corporate networks sitting behind firewalls. We use : rsh/rlogin all over our internal development networks. We just don't : let it through the firewall. And since everyone on the development : network has root for all the machines, the security limitations in : rsh and rlogin are a non-issue. That assumes that your firewall is good and that it can't be breached. Once breached, the pentration will spread like wildfire, to mix my metaphores. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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