Re: build an appliance without a shell

[david maynor <dave () 0dayspray com>]

Nothing is worse than having an appliance that has no admin access other
than the web interface. The worst experience I have ever had with a
security tool is an IDS appliance that would not give me full admin
access and even though they did have a shell refused to give us root
access on the box. The reason this was bad is the web interface would
hang forcing us to call the vendor to have a support person ssh in and
restart the service. This is not a good business model and was a
contributing factor in us dropping them. 

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 10:03, ken_i_m () fatair net wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:29:41AM -0800, arlen (arlen () hushmail com) wrote:
> > asked the S.E. about shells - does it have one? Is there any way of getting
> > a full interactive shell on this thing?
>
> I was just handed a task yesterday to build a single function "toaster" 
> to be hung outside the firewall on its own public IP.  I have thought 
> about building various appliance in the past so it is not a new idea. 
> Building an OS from the ground up using a linux kernel is not a big 
> deal either.  But after reading the thread from which I took the above 
> quote I am left with "shell == bad" therefore no shell.  ???
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