Quoting Peter Clark (pc451 at yahoo.com): > Maybe now would be a good time to ask a question that I have been > wondering about for some time. Is there any way to have a box give a > false identity for its OS? For example, have Linux tell the outside > world that it is really NT4? That way, any s'kiddie that comes along > with his arsenal of l33t cracks sees, "Oh! NT! Let me try this..." and > gives the sysadmin something to chuckle about in the syslog. > Is this even remotely a good idea? Of course, you wouldn't want to > build your entire defense around it, but just as an additional measure > to throw kiddies off. Or would it cause too many problems for regular > operations? I can't imagine that it would be too much of a problem for > a single computer connected to the net, such as mine. RFC, please. Go to google. Look for honeypot, articles are there. Also, google again, nmap, read about OS finger printing. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 02E0 2734 A1A1 DBA1 0E15 623D 0036 7327 93D9 7DA3 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010427/840ee65c/attachment.pgp