On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> > > I am not (apart from my home computer).
> >
> > next thing you know, you dial out and people crack in through your ppp
> > connection (it happens a LOT, mind you! people run scanners on dial-up
> > IP ranges for BackOriffice, webmin, linuxconf and oth
> > > But if I am not a sys admin?
> >
> > I am not (apart from my home computer).
>
> next thing you know, you dial out and people crack in through your ppp
> connection (it happens a LOT, mind you! people run scanners on dial-up
> IP ranges for BackOriffice, webmin, linuxconf and other stupidi
On 6 Jul 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > But if I am not a sys admin?
>
> I am not (apart from my home computer).
next thing you know, you dial out and people crack in through your ppp
connection (it happens a LOT, mind you! people run scanners on dial-up
IP ranges for BackOriffice, webmin, li
> > Do you run Quake on you server, latest
> > 2.4.0-test3-pre2-ac2-riel7-aa2 kernel?
>
> I hope he doesn't, not on a production machine. I hope he uses a test
> box for that.
>
> >Is that a reason not to run it on
> > your home machine?
>
> If you have a spare computer, or if there is nothing
Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > because bad habits and work practices follow you to the workplace.
> > Some disciplines are important to keep even when it's not a "live
> > server".
Hear, hear!
> But if I am not a sys admin?
I am not (apa
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> The system will not let you telnet nor ftp as root. This is a security
> feature (I am not sure what it secures, but so be it).
But if you want to disable the use of /etc/ftpusers and /etc/securetty you
can alternatively disable the checks for them in
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > > I do hope this is for home use and not in an office environment. either
> > > way it's a bad practice. I sugest some book on system administration
> >
> > Why is it bad practice for home use?
>
> because bad habits and work practices follow you to the
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> > I do hope this is for home use and not in an office environment. either
> > way it's a bad practice. I sugest some book on system administration
>
> Why is it bad practice for home use?
because bad habits and work practices follow you to the workplace
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Fiedler wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to
> log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system.
>
> Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
I do hope this is for home use and n
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:56:26PM +0300, Richard Fiedler wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to
> log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system.
>
> Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
To allow root t
The system will not let you telnet nor ftp as root. This is a security
feature (I am not sure what it secures, but so be it).
I think the best way for you to do this (also in terms of security) is to
install OpenSSH. It is free, support both versions of SSH (1 and 2), and
works great with Linux.
the way 2 do that is to telnet as a user and then to su to root.
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