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Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..'

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Thu Jul 26 13:43:50 2001

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This is, in fact, what we do; it still makes me nervous.

Marshall
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>
>On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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>> >>> > How many of us here run anything less than SSH and even allow telnetd

>> to
>> >>> > live on any of our hosts?
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>> Hey, we have had to do without SSH in more than one CISCO IOS build in the
last
>> 6 months in 12.1 / 12.2.
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>> This always made me feel very nervous.
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>   One way of avoiding this is to always have a console server that has
>SSH implemented into the IOS build ( or even a separate vendor that
>supports SSH ).    This way you centrally access your network devices from

>one spot, authenticated by SSH, if any of the devices in question do not
>support SSH ( yes this  can be impractical, but I typically want to have
>console access to every  device I administer if possible anyway ).
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>.z
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Marshall Eubanks

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