Re: Securing OpenSRS

From: David Denney (daud@dimensional.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 13:09:51 EST


On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:59:50AM -0500, David Harris wrote:
> I was talking off-list with one of the security proponents on this list and he
> admitted that any other user on the system could read his OpenSRS.conf file.
> That's out-right scary if you ask me.

If you allow users to login to your secure server,
that is even scarrier to me !!!

Local users are a security problem for ANY system.
I restrict my users to a single shell machine,
and they have no access to any other machines, directly.

> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Inc.

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