As for making Suse safe as in secure well i am on an ADSL connection so i have an seperate firewall on the network here that seems to keep things pretty tight i have sat and watched the script kiddies play at trying to find a way in none of them has as yet , I keep em guessing by changing
On Monday 04 October 2004 7:23 pm, peter Nikolic wrote: things
all the time so they very rarely see the same configuration twice.
That raises an interesting question. Suppose you didn't keep them guessing, and never changed your passwords. Do you think your system would still be safe? I would guess so; if you choose your passwords sensibly and restrict the retry rate for logins to, say, once every five seconds (which would hardly inconvenience an authorized user), it would take many years for anyone to mechanically guess your critical passwords -- by which time you'd probably be running SuSE 18.2. :=) Paul