<html><head></head><body>Personally, I also have the system account on my rsx systems setup to not allow logins over the net. Local users only...<br>
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Johnny <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Fred <fcoffey@misernet.net> skrev: (25 oktober 2016 18:54:20 CEST)<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Johnny Billquist wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> While I certainly think that it does good for your nerves, I really consider <br /> that to just be security through obscurity. Alternate ports is not really any <br /> protection. But it do reduce the noise.<br /><br /> I can understand people who don't like telnet. Cleartext passwords certainly <br /> are not fun.<br /> However, I'm not about to implement ssh for RSX quite yet... So telnet it is. <br /> :-)<br /></blockquote><br />After I noticed quite a few attempts on SYSTEM on MISER:: I now have two <br />passwords set. The scripts seemed to be confused by the second password <br />prompt, and intrusion detection gets them long before ... so they don't <br />even know if they are guessing wrong/right/indifferent.<br /><br />I am still thinking about turning off telnet though ..!
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occasionally use <br />it as a back door in case I lock myself out of my main ssh system. (which <br />with the protections I have on there I have accidentally done it to myself <br />once or thrice. :)<br /><br />Fred<br /><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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