is redhat9 still free?

If you like Red Hat, go with fedora, Fedora is like a "beta" version of the next Enterprise. They load whatever they can on to fedora, see what works, what's buggy, etc. then for all the really stable stuff they put in the Enterprise version.

I love RedHat 9 really smooth. I had gotten my copy from linuxiso.org when it first came out. It didn’t take long to figure out either.

redhat 9 has a 2.4 kernel, its really old. I am pretty sure that it is vulnerable of that SSH hack that trinity used in matrix reloaded.

So make sure you keep sshd up to date.

heh.. is that what that hack was?

yep, she actually used a real hacking tool, nmap, to port scan the server. She didn't use a real hack though.

There are currently 2 hacks currently in circulation that will exploit that vulnerability. Neither of them is called "sshnuke".

still, same vulnerability.

So far I have only used RH, it is pretty nice. But now for my new comp, i want to try a different one to see what is better. It would be really nice to have some kind of comparison chart for all the popular ones. Anybody has some idea?

Trinity used nmap to a 10. address on port 22 -- ssh port.

The exploit she used was 'sshnuke' -- it's an old one.

Cheers.

no, the article I read said there was no such thing as sshnuke and that the movie companies made that bit up.

Doing a google search for sshnuke gives links to the matrix article and a whole lot of other stuff but no exploits

The exploit she used was real, it's the sshh v1 CRC 32 exploit from circa 2001. Some machines are still vulnerable to this exploit. The tool, which may or may not have been fictional, (in name only) at the time is real now. Someone wrote some perl, called it sshnuke, which does indeed exploit the vulnerability previously mentioned, now exists.

So what I meant to say, the exploit she made use of, was indeed real, the wrapper at the time the movie was released, was not.


Cheers.