Adam Vande More wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:05 AM, John <j...@starfire.mn.org> wrote:People, people - be careful that we are not creating a formula to break into FreeBSD servers around the world... The only acceptable solution is for someone in Eric's organization to secure physical access to the server. It may be in a co-lo situation, but if that's true, they must have a contract open and, if nothing else, they terminate the contract and get the machine back, though more likely, the contract allows them supervised access. Machines are not perfect - even without losing the root password, they break and need maintenance - this is a MAINTENANCE event and should be treated as such, just like a hard drive failure or a NIC failure. Creating a scheme for someone to break into FreeBSD systems remotely or to publicize schemes people have created to remotely manage their systems in ways that could be used to compromise them is foolishness! Regardless of the purity of his intention, Eric is asking us to tell him how to break into our homes or steal our cars. ;)Security through obscurity is no security, hence it is a good exercise.
Quite. In any case, the OP started out by telling us how he had plugged a monitor into the server, so we're several degrees removed from reality by this point.
-- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com
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