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

["G. Armour Van Horn" <vanhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Web hosting isn't an important part of my business other than sites that I
have created and maintain, but I do a little. I definitely consider the
fact that I'm running a RaQ2 to be noteworthy, it lets sophistocated users
know that it is a managed system in case they want to avoid that and lets
inexperienced users know they have the management GUI to fall back on.

I don't think telling the world that your server is a RaQ? has any real
security implications at all. However, I wouldn't actually run telnet on a
web server, installing ssh isn't that hard and means that there are no
passwords sent in the clear.

Van

At 05:15 PM 12/27/00 -0500, 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.
>
>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.....
>
>Rick Ewart
>
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