Re: S: ssh worms FAQ
From: Paul remove-the-nospam Day (paul_at_nospam.bur.st)
Date: 09/16/04
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Date: 16 Sep 2004 10:46:59 +0800
In comp.security.unix Innocenti Maresin <av95@comtv.ru> wrote:
> Namely, I want a text readable by UNIX novices
> that ssh is a very powerful remote access method,
> that it's extremely dangerous to have
> accounts with "default" (set by distro etc.) password
Ahh... such as?
Anyone with half a brain completely locks out unused default accounts.
Sun's Security Toolkit (JASS) does this and there are couple of
automated Linux hardening tools that do the same.
PD
P.S. cross-posting and then having multiple groups in your followup-to
is not only pointless, but bad netiquette. :)
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