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G.Z.C (zsolt@telus.net)
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:07:35 -0800
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:18:42 -0800 (PST), Andrew Daviel wrote:
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>SNMP is a good thing to block. On Digital Unix it gives away tons of stuff
>- addresses of all connected machines, names of mounted filesystems,
>device names for disks, lists of running processes, system version number.
Am I getting this right? On Digital Unix, SNMP is turned on by default?
Linux SNMP is not turned on by default, fortunately, and if enabled does
>not give away much - system name, owner and location as I recall - unless
>more features are turned on.
>Many things like network printers, etc. use SNMP and will tell you
>addresses of connected machines, hinting at trust relationships.
What are those features, when turned on will cause to give away the
system name, owner and location, network printers and addresses of
connected machines?
>Common suggestions are to rename "public" to something else - not
>"private" or "yourorgname".
What would that accomplish and how?
George
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