[Gllug] Understanding ntop
John Hearns
john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Wed Mar 9 16:59:08 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 16:47 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
>
> Beware ntop .....
>
> I just downloaded it & ran it and noticed that it made a connection
> to the author's site: //jake.unipi.it/, this is somewhat worrying
> since it asked me to enter an administrator's password - which has
> now been changed.
>
> It is possible that he is just seeing who is running it, but I
> don't like this sort of thing.
Assuming you either downloaded the ntop source and compiled it,
or you used a trusted source of rpms' or dpkgs then the source is
there for you to look at...
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