On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 02:23, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 04 October 2004 7:23 pm, peter Nikolic wrote:
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
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
Well now there's a good one i think the only valid answer has just gopt to be how knows some little smuck may just get lucky but i doubt it somehow , all i got to do is find a way if it is a windBloZe box that finds a way in is work out a way of doing an fdisk c: on there machine over the net or install dban to run on there next reboot that should be good fun Cheers Pete . -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..