Re: Common Unix Security Risks - Your help please!

From: Gandalf Parker (gandalf_at_most.of.my.favorite.sites)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:56:53 GMT

Bodo Eggert <7eggert@fsmtpd.7eggert.dyndns.org> wrote in
news:ev05ac.54e.ln@msgid.7eggert.dyndns.org:

> Ben Watkins <b.u.watkins@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> What, in your minds, are the most common (top five) and potentially
>> most exploitable security risks that you see in Unix/Linux
>> deployments?
>
> (L)Users (and their passwords).

Heehee. I had a sysadmin over me once that in anger told the boss "These
machines would run just FINE if it wasnt for all these users you put on
them." Kindof funny considering it was an ISP. :)

Gandalf Parker
-- First I used an ISP, then I worked for ISPs, then I became an ISP.
Now I dont even bother with ISPs. I AM my server. I AM ROOT