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Re: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:11:27 -0800
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
Jeffrey April wrote:
> A quick way to secure the admin page is to use an ssh tunnel. With
> SecureCRT, and other ssh client for Windoze, you can connect to port 81
> via an ssh tunnel. This will encrypt all of the traffic to the admin
> pages.
I did it this way for a while. Until I was visiting a client, and
needed to make a quick change so I used his browser to log into my gui.
And then realized my mistake. Now I use ssl and a secure cert so my
mistakes won't come back to haunt me.
Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting
nobaloney.net
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