[SAC] Cleaning up Web VM

Martin Spott Martin.Spott at mgras.net
Thu Sep 13 00:23:11 PDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 02:57:30PM -0700, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Is it really intentional that we provide universal ssh
> access to the webextra vm? I was surprised to find
> ssh login information on the public page at:
[...]
> I imagine that the account has limited priveledges [...]

No, this account provides a regular shell login, because it's in no way
restricted.  I have no idea why it's been done this way (now is almost
the first time I'm touching the Webextra VM) and I agree, it should get
disabled completely, the account as well as the additional host name.

Cheers,
	Martin.
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