Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:08:08 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <002801c1682c$818807b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15330.6606.417524.41024@guru.mired.org><002b01c1635f$5a5f4300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15330.14419.809266.281360@guru.mired.org> <007e01c1636e$97016d10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108021537.E79276@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos writes: > I let people login as normal users on my workstation > from places like New Zealand, Australia or Canada ... Via telnet or SSH? Is there any danger in allowing telnet login of unprivileged users on a system, apart from the possibility of compromise of the user's own account? That is, can one safely set up, say, a guest account and allow telnet login to it without any danger to the system as a whole from unusual compromises of the telnet protocol (if any)? > ... only one user is in the `wheel' group (and is > allowed to use su(1) to become root) and > that is my own personal user account. Do you telnet or SSH on your own account? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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