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Re: [cobalt-users] Proactive action against hack attempts



On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:02:34 -0500, Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

:>Now I'm glad my admin ID has no shell access anymore. Gaining FTP access 
:>would be bad enough but even if someone did, they couldn't get shell access 
:>and root has no FTP rights....*grin...I feel good.
:>

I agree and use ssh, portsentry, and ipfwadm to slow things down. What I would
really like to do is rename the admin ID on my Qube2.  The message on the GUI
indicates that it cannot be changed. That is the first thing I do on my Win2K
servers. 

It appears that the admin id is so integrated into the overall Cobalt design
that it would be somewhat complicated to put it to sleep??