Minimal Install Option

Bill Anderson bill at noreboots.com
Thu Aug 21 17:59:48 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:55, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure you are disagreeing with me here. Are you saying don't
> > > > remote log in to a firewall at all, or are you agreeing with me?
> > > 
> > > I'm disagreeing. The last thing a fw should do is run a service, let 
> > > alone one with the security history of ssh.... Manage over serial.
> > 
> > Disagree. Set your access controls in /etc/hosts.allow for sshd and you're 
> > done :-)
> 
> and then join the OpenSSL / OpenSSH exploit train.... No, thanks!
> 
> This is all just proving my point, which was that no one can even agree 
> on what a minimal machine should be.

Actually, at this point this part of the thread is a security
discussion, not a minimum install discussion.

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Bill Anderson
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