Security Solutions

• Choose good passwords.
• Use Kerberos or other encryption software to keep sensitive information like passwords from traveling in the clear. In order to connect securely to your computer with Kerberos, you will need to send mail to accounts@mit.edu to request a srvtab for your machine, and use only Kerberized telnet clients to connect to it.
• Update your system regularly so that would-be attackers have less time to exploit known bugs: as root, attach linux and run /mit/linux/redhat/redhat-4.2/i386/updates/update.pl.