I very infrequently install X11/Xorg on any servers, unless I’m doing an install for a client and they ask for it. My most common server install is a base installation of Debian stable that weighs in at about 300MB. I always thought there was no need for a graphical display on a server, for […]
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‘Insecure by Default’? Well, Yes and No…
Posted in single user, boot, unix, security, linux on Oct 12th, 2007
Azerblog mentions that Linux distros are insecure by default, specifically that you can boot into single user mode by editing the GRUB kernel line to get to a root shell. Actually, this doesn’t work without the existing root password on Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu (not sure about other Unices or Linux distros). Just before entering […]
There is an article up at InformIT by John Tränkenschuh
titled
href=”http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=471099&rl=1″>SSH
Issues: Does Installing SSH Enable More Exploits Than it
Solves?. The basic premise of the article is that SSH usage is
enabling security holes, in most cases quietly, that otherwise would
not have been present. The specific example given is that of SSH agent
forwarding, and how compromise of the […]
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