OT: Security

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, JM wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	Has anyone ever deployed KVM Over IP? in w/c access will be coming from the
> internet.  How do you secure the access?  Would you recommend using it and
> deploying it in the wild?

If you want remote console access I'd recommend using a serial console and 
locking down the box with access to the serial console in a big way (ssh 
with pub key access only).

This won't give you access to the bios but this is not a big deal in my 
experience.  Set the bios properly once (allow booting from cdrom) and 
forget it.

Rob

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