[olug] Security

[Nate Rotschafer]

Wrong Brian....sorry the Brian I was referring to knows what I'm talking 
about...Also I'm glad that this has turned into a decent thread on 
security...what do we think is the risk factor of a computer whose only 
outside access is through SSH...but it still has internal network access how 
big of a risk factor is it to the internal network?  How about if that 
internal network were connected to someone else's private network over a 
VPN...would that person have reason to be concerned...as on the flip side 
the person running the SSH machine would have cause for concern over a Win2k 
Server having access to the internal network and thus his over the 
VPN....aren't they both equally bad security risks or is one worse than the 
other...Then what about running Sendmail, and Apache on a machine hooked 
also into the private network where does this fall?  I mean can we really be 
secure with any external access and where would people rank these risks 1-3, 
1 being the highest risk and 3 being the lowest...here is what I say:  1) 
Apache and Sendmail, 2) SSH and 2) Win2k....i say the last two are lower 
because of all the exploits for sendmail...but I think SSH and Win2k are 
equally bad what do you all think?

Thanks,
Nate Rotschafer


>From: "Brian Roberson" <roberson at bstc.net>
>Reply-To: olug at bstc.net
>To: <olug at bstc.net>
>Subject: Re: [olug] Security
>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:15:57 -0600
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>Right! ??!!
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> > night/this morning very well I believe...right Brian?  Just my $.02....
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