Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:43:06 -0400 From: "Wade Majors" <wade@ezri.org> To: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Message-ID: <FKEGLODDJMLHNKFFPPKDCEGICLAA.wade@ezri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010818150053.C4969-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>
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> > Agreed, but given the recent telnetd exploit, I'm not sure you want it > > on by default. Even in our heavily-firewalled environment, we don't > > want *ALL* of the users to have root access on our FreBSD boxes. :) > > I must have misspoke. There's only 4 of us that have the root password on > our machines, but we 4 telnet everywhere as root. And just horrify > everyone, my lead actaully runs X as root, as did I for awhile. > I believe he was referring to the recent telnetd root exploit. A disgrunted, bored, and/or curious employee can be just as dangerous as someone on the outside. -Wade To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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