Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:56:56 +0400 From: "Andrew" <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: "Dan Rue" <drue@therub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ultimately Safe User Account Message-ID: <001101c4a1d1$639ce540$460011ac@SATPC> References: <2D8BB15C7B5C214F81C32D3A83B32736013D45B3@idbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> <20040923223849.GK40647@therub.org>
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Dan Rue wrote: > A live CD is a good suggestion. > > I have to disagree with the idea behind this whole thing, though. I > mean, if this guy's really your friend, I don't see what you're so > worried about. It's really pretty tough to 'accidently' break things as > a user on a system, as long as the system is moderately well > administered. > > If you're concerned about him using a bad password, give him a > sufficient warning and run john the ripper against your password file > for a couple of days. > > Also, don't allow any clear-text protocols such as samba, ftp, telnet, > etc etc. > > Dang, man, I had a friend that ran an /open/ shell server in high > school. He had over 100,000 users, and didn't get hacked (well, he did > at first, but that's when he was running linux :) ). > > How's he supposed to learn anything if all you give him is a jail with > ls cp mv sh and vi? sheesh. That'll turn him off unix pretty quick. Thanks for your feedback. I guess I'll just let him in and try not to worry. Well, the trouble is that I am the one administering the box and that it was this summer when I started reading heaps of unix/bsd documentation - for the first time in my life. I'm still paranoid about my own actions, not to mention smb's else. I'll give him cygwin/livecd as well, though. Thanks again! Regards, Andrew P.
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