I thought the normal procedure was to telnet in, then su root, as opposed to directly telneting in as root. Someone please clarify! On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Torvald Baade Bringsvor wrote:
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 wizard01@impop.bellatlantic.net wrote:
On a several occasions, somebody has managed to break into my networked SuSE Linux box and do some damage. On two occasions, the damage has made it impossible for me to log in to my own site.
If you *have* to enable root logins (not likely), please study the man pages of tcpd, and see if you can use it to limit the number of hosts who can log into your server.
-Torvald
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