Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:59:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> To: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@polkan2.dyndns.org> Cc: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, "Carroll, D. (Danny)" <Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Message-ID: <20010818145557.H4969-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108180041390.92972-100000@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > And finally setup your telnetd so that it will print a message saying > "telnet is insecure. please use ssh" etc. It will display this message, > sleep for 60 seconds and then run normal telnetd. Most people will just > sit there and wait for 60 seconds, then use telnet. After one or two month > of this torture disable telnetd for good (keep the message, but don't run > telnetd). People will download ssh and think "Thank God, I don't have to > wait for 60 seconds now! I love that SSH thing!" > That's what our sysadmin did (shell server used by some 4000 undergrads) > and it worked. While not a bad idea in the .edu universe, if I tried to pull that on our development servers, I'd have a torrent of angry email not only from developers but their managers. Being accountable sucks. :) -- Matt Piechota Finger piechota@emailempire.com for PGP key AOL IM: cithaeron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010818145557.H4969-100000>