From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 12:44:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA12727 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA12699 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA07644; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:37:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Charlie ROOT To: Jim Dennis cc: Bill Weiss , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Free BSD and Security In-Reply-To: <199607171821.LAA02052@starshine> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Jim Dennis wrote: (on security) > > Use vipw to look for unusual accounts (like sync, toor or ruut, > man, guest). Make sure that their password fields are *'d out. > > > Other questions/suggestions: > (precede most of these with "Did you"... or "Do you want > to" [list deleted] > > Jim Dennis, > Starshine Technical Services > This is really good and last time I looked there wasn't anything like this in the handbook, not only for "real" system administrators but for individuals who install FreeBSD (and probably have an Internet connection of one kind or another) and are in effect their own (inexperienced) sysadmins. Annelise