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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:34:19 -0600
From:      "Samuel Chow" <cyschow@shaw.ca>
To:        "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Watching users
Message-ID:  <000a01c23394$8af25970$0501a8c0@intelex>
References:  <000001c23388$a1c00500$0a01a8c0@MIKESBOX> <002901c2338c$3709eab0$2afececd@TCOOPER>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com>
> You know what, as soon as you say your a newbie on this list your bound to
> be attacked. After advertising my domain I was flooded with anonymous ftp,
> telnet. This is a perfect place for BHH (Black Hat Hackers) to find
newbies
> to compromise and teach a lesson about security. How fun. :)
>
> P.S.    hehe, I was under the impression that SSH was suppose to be a
secure
> shell. I will stick with the old FTP.

    If you are allowing anonymous ftp only, you are fine.
    Otherwise; your password is traveling the Internet
    in plaintext.  That probably is not what you want.

---
Samuel Chow
cyschow@shaw.ca

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