We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

So without a doubt, the best time for the power supply in your server to die is when you're out of town. Oh, and the line to your boxes at home should die too. And the only machine with a working modem in your hotel room should be an NT box (without ssh installed) and then the connection you dial through should be 19 hops away from anything (routing from San Jose to NY, DC, Boston, and back to Frisco and conveniently losing almost all of the packets) Anyway, we're back up and kinda hobbling now, (thanks to Jesse & Dan and UP Networks for being jonny's-on-the-spot) but I'm trying to fix some stuff as fast as I can. In the meantime, things are gonna be a bit zany, so don't flame me to loud. And don't worry, we've been working for the last month to build a new system with redundancy and stuff so that this won't happen again (knock on wood).

Comments

For those times without SSH...OTP.

[Greg@RageNet]

Traveling occasionally and being forced to use other's machines (usually windoze boxes) I've found a good way to get in without SSH and still keep the crackers off my back. I've installed OPIE, a one time password login mechanism; in addition I installed PilotOTP on my Palm 3 which travels with me everywhere. TCP wrappers are set up to give local network users the standard login prompt while 'twist'ing the rest of the internet to an OTP login..

hosts.allow has a rule for in.telnetd allowing local network standard access.
in hosts.deny:
in.telnetd: ALL : twist /usr/sbin/in.telnetd \
-L /bin/login.opie

Hope this helps!

-- Greg