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Re:Rugged OS (industry, military & power plant OS) has backd... by fpp on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @05:27PM (#3891191)
Have a look at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/889195

"Workarounds: ROS users can disable the rsh service and set the number of allowed telnet connections to 0."

there is currently no solution available.

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Re:Rugged OS (industry, military & power plant OS) has backd... by mey on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @08:48PM (#3891843)
A disconnected system is a secure system. The statement above the line you quoted says

Solution We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

What's the point of a remote management switch you can't access?

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