Re: promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/12/99 Matthew Dalton wrote: You can Use ssh and don't run sshd from inetd. ssh uses tcp wrappers regardless of whether you run it from inetd or not (unless you specifically recompile without them) so you need to add sshd: ALL to /etc/hosts.allow in order to allow ssh connectio

Re: promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread Matthew Dalton
William T Wilson wrote: > Of course > then you can't log in from arbitrary places then... You can Use ssh and don't run sshd from inetd.

Re: promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi there, > > It means that that interface is receiving all packets on the network > > segment. Useful for packet sniffers. It's a bad thing if a cracker has > > initiated it. > That is what I thought. Is there a way to keep a cracker from doing this? The only person who can put the ethernet dev

Re: promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: > That is what I thought. Is there a way to keep a cracker from doing this? You need to keep them out in the first place. My personal favorite is to just keep tabs on security of standalone daemons (apache, sendmail) and then put "ALL: ALL" in hosts.deny. W

Re: promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Dec-1999 Matthew Dalton wrote: > It means that that interface is receiving all packets on the network > segment. Useful for packet sniffers. It's a bad thing if a cracker has > initiated it. That is what I thought. Is there a way to keep a cracker from doing this? thanks -- Andrew > > P

Re: promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread Matthew Dalton
It means that that interface is receiving all packets on the network segment. Useful for packet sniffers. It's a bad thing if a cracker has initiated it. Pollywog wrote: > > Is it a bad thing for my machine's interfaces to be in promiscuous mode? > > -- > Andrew > >

promiscuous mode for Eth0

1999-12-16 Thread Pollywog
Is it a bad thing for my machine's interfaces to be in promiscuous mode? -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*