13 Jul
2001
13 Jul
'01
2:52 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, John Stoffel wrote:
I just went and looked at it and I'm not that impressed with the security features, nor with the lack of any mentioned scrollback serial buffer. That's a key thing to me.
I figure that having a dedicated UNIX box (FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, whatever we happen to have lying around) on a private link to the serial port box will solve the security issues (access limited to sysadmin types, ssh access to protect against network sniffers, single point of access into server console ports). Run "screen" on the server so people can resume console sessions, look at scrollback, have disk-based logs for everything, share multiple-write sessions, etc.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"