Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP
DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com> writes:
> The only other similar problem I can think of is vmware related.
There's also the possibility that they're thinking about DHCP. A
number of admins can tell stories of the time someone was trying to
set up a DHCP server for one of their interfaces, and they
misconfigured it so that it served DHCP addresses on the external
interface, thus breaking things.
In general, if you aren't running a service, there's no way you can
confuse the rest of the network that you're the authoritative server
for that service. If you keep it to ssh and ftp[1], you shouldn't
have problems.
Footnotes:
[1] I'd ditch ftp, if possible, and use scp. Since you're not doing
anon-ftp, I don't see any reason to leave it open... it tends to give
more security problems.
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