Re: Attempted Breakins

["Aaron M. Theriault" <aaron chatnet com>]

take a look at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/  really good site.

Aaron M. Theriault


micry wrote:

> Where can I get sentry?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Doris <gdoris shaw wave ca>
> To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 6:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Attempted Breakins
>
> >First, I don't even remotely consider myself a security expert so take
> >what I say with a very large grain of salt!!!
> >
> >Sentry's author states that most crackers are "noisey" and normally are
> >looking for the easy entry.  He wrote sentry to discourage unskilled or
> >lazy crackers.  While it makes entry harder I doubt it would even slow down
> >a skilled dedicated cracker.  In fact, you have the option of presenting a
> >banner to the cracker (the example one says something like "the
> >administrators have your ip and have taken preventative action...go away").
> >However the documentation advises again "taunting".
> >
> >I believe the idea is to make your system a little more difficult to break
> >into without giving the cracker some real reason to do so in the hopes
> >that they will simply move on to easier pickings.
> >
> >Do not consider sentry the total solution to the cracker problem.  It
> >isn't!!!
> >
> >Gerry
> >
> >
> >On 23-Jan-99 Federico Strati wrote:
> >> Hi Gerry, hi all
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't run sentry yet... but I'll run it in the next future:-)
> >> Do you have any hint about it and its use?
> >> snip....
> >
> >----------------------------------
> >E-Mail: Gerry Doris <gdoris shaw wave ca>
> >Date: 23-Jan-99
> >Time: 15:51:19
> >
> >"The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
> >----------------------------------
> >
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