OT: Security

[JM]

Access to KVM Over IP console is via HTTPS

tia,

On Saturday 04 March 2006 8:15 am, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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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