Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> 3b) ssh key only authentication And generate new keys too, just incase anyone ever got them before. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Ad

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Joseph Kern
Here's what I got so far ... suggestions? On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> 3b) ssh key only authentication > > And generate new keys too, just incase anyone ever got them before. > > Title: CTF-Cutsheet CTF-Cutsheet Table of Contents 1 CTF Cutsheet - Defenders

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Joseph Kern wrote: > Here's what I got so far ... suggestions? I presumed you'll be attacked immediately, so my first thought was to shut off inetd right away, then use "netstat -n -l" to see if there are other services to shut down. Then I'd configure a secure (

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Chuong Dao
>From a quick look through the responses, it seems like we've been focusing >mostly on remote attacks. Looks like you're allowing SSH (w/o root access). >Watch for local vulnerabilities. -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Joseph Kern
I keep hearing keys only ssh ... I'll add that too. But I do have a question. If the students are not allowed to bring in outside laptops (to store their private keys on), this would seem like a bad idea. Public and Private keys would both be installed on the servers. I've attached the latest vers

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> I keep hearing keys only ssh ... I'll add that too. But I do have a Why is it so common to jump to the conclusion that keys-only-ssh is more secure than passwords? I somewhat or sometimes disagree with this. When you use ssh keys, it's a virtual certainty that the keys are stored on the clie

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread david
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> I keep hearing keys only ssh ... I'll add that too. But I do have a > > Why is it so common to jump to the conclusion that keys-only-ssh is more > secure than passwords? I somewhat or sometimes disagree with this. When you > use ssh keys, it's a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> I keep hearing keys only ssh ... I'll add that too. But I do have a > > Why is it so common to jump to the conclusion that keys-only-ssh is more > secure than passwords? My assumption is that during the contest the laptops that would ss

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
da...@lang.hm wrote: > > The real answer in production is to use a token authentication that is not > accessable to someone who hacks the client machine, but this is a game > where such infrastructure is not feasible. But OTP via OPIE is certainly doable. -- John H. Robinson, IV jh..