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Re: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages



On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:05:34 -0800 (PST) duncan gray <duncanrobertgray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ive recently just had one of my websites hacked on my
> server I have know Idea how as I thought my server was
> pretty secure, As I've kept up to date with all the
> latest patches, switched my tellnet over to SSH, and
> so forth, my bigest guess is that you have to pass the
> root password to the machine while logging in over the
> Web admin pages, this scare me some what.  But raises
> some questions in my mind.

Enable SSL on your primary site, this will automatically
make admin interface ssl-secured too, so nobody will be
able to snoop the password.

Eugene