THE BIG BROTHER SYSTEM AND NETWORK MONITOR
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Version 1.9c
May 15th, 2002

(c) Copyright Quest Software, Inc.  1997-2002  All rights reserved.

      Questions? Contact:
      BB4 Technologies Inc.
      E-mail: info@bb4.com


Please read the LICENSE agreement before using this package.

For installation instructions please refer to the README.INSTALL file.

Security Considerations
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We care about security, and have a "full disclosure" policy.  That
means if a security problem is discovered, we'll disclose it promptly
to the BB mailing list, Bugtraq, and Freshmeat.net.  The reason for
this is simple, if we know about it, so do the bad guys, and they're
already exploiting it.

If we issue a security alert, please follow the instructions if
you're at risk.  If you discover a hole, please let us know 
immediately, and we'll fix it right away.  You will earn our
undying gratitude.

The following suggestions are mostly targeted as BB display and pager hosts.
These are the Big Brother daemons, and as such are higher risk than
the simple clients.  If you have any additional suggestions, please
pass them along!

* Never install network software without considering the security
  implications.  If you have a security person, discuss it with them.
  If not, talk nicely to your Sys Admin.  If you're the Sys Admin,
  feel free to give us a shout on the BB mailing list if you have any
  questions.

* Since you're probably running a Web server on the BBDISPLAY machine
  you might consider making sure it's secure.  Even Apache has gotten
  broken into, just from a misconfigured web server.  Beware!

* BB does not need to run as root.  We suggest creating a user 'bb'
  and running BB as that user.

* BB has the ability to restrict incoming connections to those IP
  addresses (and networks) listed in the etc/security file.  Use it.

* If you're in an environment with a firewall, we suggest running
  two instances of BB, one on this inside of the firewall, and one
  on the outside.  This keeps things clean, and doesn't require any
  unnecessary holes in the firewall.

* The usual warnings about scripts in the cgi-bin directory... make
  sure that your webserver isn't running as root, and be careful what
  can be seen and run by outsiders.

* We recommend password-protecting the Big Brother web pages.
  This includes the cgi-bin scripts.

* Don't compile in the "notes" and "disable/enable" features of
  the BB display/pager hosts unless you understand the implications.
  Refer to the documentation for more information.

* Subscribe to the BB support mailing for support, security updates
  and other news:

	mailto: majordomo@bb4.com
	in the text of the message: subscribe bb

	There's also a developer's mailing list:
	mailto: majordomo@bb4.com
	in the text of the message: subscribe bbd

