Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust | From | "" <> | Date | Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:49:45 -0700 |
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Good.
John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> wrote:
>On 10/03/2011 09:52 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 10/03/2011 09:49 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: >>> >>> Note that if your laptop allows incoming ssh connections, and you >>> logged into master.kernel.org with ssh forwarding enabled, your >laptop >>> may not be safe. So be very, very careful before you assume that >your >>> laptop is safe. At least one kernel developer, after he got past >the >>> belief, "surely I could have never had my machine be compromised", >>> looked carefully and found rootkits on his machines. >>> >>> - Ted >> >> By the way, I'm now pretty convinced that allowing inbound ssh on >> laptops (which is the default on all the mainline Linux distros as >far >> as I know) is seriously broken... laptops get connected to >*extremely* >> insecure networks on just way too regular a basis. >> >I can't speak for the other distros but Ubuntu does not enable sshd by >default. The openssh-server package or ssh meta package must be >installed before sshd will be run.
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