VPN server in Fedora
Mark Ryden
markryde at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 19:40:13 UTC 2009
Greg,
Thanks a lot for this info !
I was afraid that this might be the case.
I would appreciate if anybody who knows more about it or can
provide a link to some info why pptpd may be unsafe as VPN server
will share his knowledge with us.
Rgs,
Mark
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> I can't say why nobody has packaged pptpd for Fedora, but I do know that
> the PPTP protocol was broken years ago. It is riddled with security
> design flaws that make it pretty much useless (in the opinion of our
> security staff, anyway). If you have assets worth protecting with a VPN,
> you probably don't want to be using PPTP anyway.
>
> --Greg
>
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