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Re: SSH with potato, not very secure?



On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:39:15AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > * Ethan Benson
> >
> > | On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:07:43AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > | >
> > | > My potatos have
> > | > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> > | > in /etc/apt/sources.list
> > | > That was in there by default, I just uncommented it. (it was there in r0 too,
> > |
> > | it was there but commented out by default?  hrm i wonder why that is,
> > | it does not much good being commented out...
> >
> > Not everyone has a permanent internet connection..  It should probably
> > ask whether you want to have it in there.
> >
>
> I believe it becomes uncommented if one installs over the network?  (That
> would make sense to ME anyway.)

I installed solely over ftp/http from central debian-servers and this is
what the aforementioned line looks like with me:

#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

So, what makes sense is not necessarily so in real life...


Regards,
Runar



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