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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
- Subject: Re: Firewall usage (was: Re: ping works, but ftp/telnet get "no route)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.010921.2735@decuac.dec.com>
- Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <1992Jul24.045228.11119@decuac.dec.com> <17008@ulysses.att.com> <1992Jul27.192945.15551@alliant.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:09:21 GMT
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- >Hey, no one has mentioned retraining all the local users who use their
- >initials for a password!
-
- Another excellent case for firewalls. I want those users on the
- *in*side of the firewall, where my problem domain becomes simply one of
- making sure that the 2 user accounts on my firewall system have good
- passwords, rather than having to worry about all the users on 40,000
- hosts in Digital.
-
- mjr.
-