Panix Help System: Security help

Security Help

Your Panix account (like any Internet account) exists on a public system in a worldwide network. Because of this, it's important to keep your account secure so that your email, account ID and even your "virtual identity" remain yours alone.

These days, a compromise of your email account or a click on a malicious web link can lead to a compromise of your home computer and computer network, so you have to be very careful about whom and what you trust.

Look here for all kinds of info about keeping your account secure, and even enhancing that security with encryption, one-time passwords, etc.

Security Help Table of Contents:

Making your Panix account more secure:

Password Maintenance on Panix: how to change it, how to care for it, etc.
Setting up SSH public key authentication
S/key one-time passwords: what they are and how to use them

Protecting yourself against the forces of evil

Avoiding phish

Setting up your software for secure connections:

Getting the SSH host keys for Panix
Because "shell.panix.com" is any of three machines, you need either to configure your software to recognize any of the host keys as valid, or always to log into the same machine.
Detailed PuTTY setup instructions with screenshots

Security Help

Security Help Table of Contents:

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