Re: X Servers for win32 & telnet logins

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:57:41PM -0000, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> Does anybody have any reccomendations on which X server I should get for
> windoze?
> 
> Also how would I set up telnet to allow root logins #only# from within my
> private lan subnet 192.168.0.*, seeing as Slackware apparently doesn't ship
> with ssh?
> 

You should _never_ allow a direct root login from anywhere other than
the terminal. In the event of a root compromise, if the attacker 
logs in directly as root, then you'll have no way of telling who they
are. The best way is to force everybody to log in as themselves and
'su' to root, or use 'sudo'.

A.D. 
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