Re: [cobalt-users] Advertise Servers are Cobalt?

[Eric Thern <zoidial@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Ewart wrote:
> 
> I was wondering what the rest of the world does....
> 
> Are you actively advertising the fact that you use Cobalt Raq servers? I see
> that it could be a benefit from the standpoint of the positive reputation
> that Cobalt has, but also think about the security issues - telling people
> what kind of hardware you have.

	My view is that the customer should know what you offer, and it seems to
be a positive thing when they can see and understand what servers you are running.

> Do you think placing a picture of cobalt's servers on your website is really
> an invitation to those who might know a RaQ's vulnerabilities? Or is it not
> a big deal as anyone who is not a script kiddie [and even them probably]
> could figure it out in a second anyways? Heck, the telnet prompt states it,
> I guess.
> 
> I would be interested in everybody's thoughts on this. And, does anyone know
> an easy way to change the info displayed at the telnet prompt? That would be
> one way to hide the type server being run.....

	This is what I change in order to change the telnet prompt.
	I don't know about changing files and what files changed as root will void
the warranty, but I myself didn't want all the cobalt information available from a telnet prompt.

	/etc/rc.d/rc.local

--------
    # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot.  So, make any changes you
    # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
    echo "" > /etc/issue
    echo "Company Name here (or something)" >> /etc/issue
    echo "All access attempts are logged" >> /etc/issue
--------





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Eric Thern