FC3 Security

[Rick Bilonick]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:03, Rick Bilonick wrote:
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>>Again, a logical solution (to a totally unnecssary problem). 
>>Unfortunately, the university does not allow having more than one 
>>computer on a port. (I don't think they really enforce this from what I 
>>have seen but the data center again would go ballistic even mentioning it.)
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>Is it just an accident of location that you are dealing with the
>data center people rather than the university IT dept?  If not,
>I'd take the box home and start looking for a more helpful university.
>I can understand the data center not wanting unknown boxes on their
>LAN, but then that LAN shouldn't be your only choice.
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>But, for a quick fix: could you set up some kind of VPN for your
>inbound connection other than ssh?   IPSec, OpenVPN, CIPE, etc.
>and shut off all other services?  Those would not respond to the
>port tests that found your ssh server, but you would need a
>matching client wherever you work.
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The data center won't consider ANY solution. They won't let me buy my 
own port and they won't accomodate me in ANY way. I guess I will either 
have to get the department to find me another office or take the machine 
home. Needless to say, I haven't found this place to be very accomodating.

Rick B.