[15013] in bugtraq
Re: Standard & Poors security nightmare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Young)
Wed May 24 13:46:57 2000
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:48:46 -0600
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From: Warren Young <tkennedy@CYBERPORT.COM>
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A few nits:
13:44 5/17/00, you wrote:
>2) Remove the /etc/issue file that reveals just how much stuff is here.
Sorry, that won't work. Unless S&P's changed something (unlikely from your
description of what's been left enabled) Red Hat systems regenerate
/etc/issue from scratch on boot. You need to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local
instead, which contains the code that generates /etc/issue.
>6) Install and use ipchains on *both* interfaces to drastically reduce what
As another poster mentioned, this is a 2.0.x kernel, so you need to use
ipfwadm, not ipchains.
= Warren -- Educational Technology Resources, Inc.