Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:45:17AM +0700, Budi Rahardjo wrote:
> > > I was thinking of creating a guest account for people to look around
> > > and get a feel of a live GNU/Hurd machine.
> >
> > As the login program is really a shell, you don't necessarily need an
> > account for guests :
>
> Oh sh*t. :(
> How do you access this `login' shell from remote?
You telnet to the box, or ssh.
> Is there a known security issues?
It should be identical to a guest account, but of course there might be any
number of unknown security holes here.
If you want to be safe, replace the login program with /bin/loginpr.
Thanks,
Marcus
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