F14 Beta RC3 images available for validation testing!

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Sep 22 16:27:46 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:20:27 -0400,
  Donald Buchan <malak at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> You're using the liveCD to do some system rescue work for a friend, and
> enable desktop control by an external source, say to work in tandem with
> someone else.  Perhaps you even get an SSH server going.  The system in
> question has valuable, at least to the owner, files on it.  You have a
> direct internet connection and no router to "protect you behind a NAT",
> and your partner is at another location.  A bot sniffs the IP and bang,
> gets in either by SSH root login, or VNC's into the desktop and starts up
> a terminal.

I had thought of that one, but I think the default is not to allow ssh
logins for accounts without passwords.


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