[rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please

[Paul Sladen]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On September 23, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
>   I've had an SGI machine cracked via a telnetd buffer overflow, yes.

What were you doing running telnetd in the first place on any machine with
more that zero network interfaces?

Paul

--
> At least it's not Linux, getting pounded on from every direction by
> children with perl scripts. ;)

And.... Try Debian; (www.debian.org), a well maintained OS with security at
the forefront;  Not every box falls over when it gets `pounded' by hax0rs...