RE: [cobalt-security] Should I be worried?

["Drage, Nicholas" <nickd@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > block their networks... either at the router, ipchains or 
> > > hosts.deny (although the last one won't protect against dns, ssh, http

> > > and everything outside inetd.conf...)
> > 
> > Not quite true IIRC, OpenSSH as built by Cobalt does support use of
> > tcp-wrappers, which is very useful and so worth noting.

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> I meant the defaults... 

Fair enough, and a good point.

> the general idea was that it doesn't entirely block everything (and
> from all the list, ssh has the least chance to be a problem, i think)

I should agree, but that has a "famous last words" ring about it :)

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