changing the pre-login text – also known as /etc/issue Pre-login text appears at the start of your telnet session. It looks something like this: FreeBSD (ns.freebsd.nz.eu.org) (ttyp2) login: You can then enter your user id and password. Please don’t confuse this with the post-login text, otherwise known as the Message Of The Day (motd). You […]
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su – how to become a super user. avoid using root If you’re like most people new to Unix, you do everything as root. You shouldn’t. I know I don’t follow my own advice, but I’m trying to improve. Create yourself another account. Use that instead of root. Unless you really need root. You
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improving security * This topic is incomplete. 11 August 1998 I decided it was time to improve the security on my system. I used http://www.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html as the starting point. Please read that resource in conjunction with what I have done below. in /etc/rc.conf, I set inetd_flags="-l -R 1024" Next, in /etc/inet.conf, I did: telnet stream
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