On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:56:48PM +0530, Rahul wrote: > >I second that, however I would suggest going further and having > >somethign denyhosts like in place or are we going with the assumption > >that anyone owning a FC installation will be setting a good password, > >or a weak password with the knowledge that SSHd is running? > passwd program has checks in place to ensure that poor passwords are > rejected and yes if you have the root password on the system there is a > question of common sense too. Sadly, since root is immune to the poor-password checks, and since common sense is, um, well, not-so, "system compromised via incredibly poor password choice" is something I've seen more often than I'd like to. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
