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> From: Mitch Halmu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:30 AM > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > > > How many of us here run anything less than SSH and even > allow telnetd to > > live on any of our hosts?> > > Those (few) providers offering shell accounts still do. Someone once proved to me, definitvely, how easy it is to crack root from a shell account. Especially one that is allowed to execute their own code. That night, I killed all shell accounts of users that I didn't personally know and trust. Those that were left were introduced to SSH. This was five-years ago. |