Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

hpanvin@gmail.com
2011-10-06T04:53:15Z

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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