Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:26:06PM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote:
Most hosting facilities do allow FrontPage and/or FTP access...FrontPage
does allow SSL connections but few people set it up which is sad. FTP
is clear and is probably the most common way to allow access to M$
Websites and no there is no SSH default connection which I totally
disagree with.

I wonder if someone has studied the incidence of website defacements and
tried to corellate that with whether or not clear ftp is used (on MS
platforms and non-MS platforms alike).

Remote Administration to an actual server can be done with a Terminal
Server Client (RDP) which is 128-bit encrypted on the login, 40-bit (I
believe but may be 128-bit as well) for the passing of the info/screen
shots but definately not clear.

I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that MS's own implementation of
crypto can be weak in some cases. IIRC, PPTP was a good example of
this. Their 40-bit PPTP could be cracked in a matter of minutes on a
mediocre machine.

Secure Administration on the inside can be done with Scripting. Whether
you want to use VBScript or JScript but this is only on the inside
environment and not over the internet. If stuff like this needs to be
done I will setup an SSH server on my M$ Boxes and open the firewall to
allow SSH but assign it to a different port. There are several half
decent free SSH Servers out there for Windows and I like freeSSHd.

I'm not a windows guy, so I am not sure about scripting. Perhaps there
is a way as you suggest, but all of the windows admins I personally know
are only able to get around in the GUI. The concept of scripting
anything is foreign to them.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
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