bartosh@apple.tamu.edu
Sat, 1 May 1999 21:31:36 -0500 (CDT)
There are plenty of ways to make your machine more than secure enought to
be in the general public- esp if you do not advertise its existence, and
cut off everything like telnet, ftp, r*, finger, etc.
You can never be 100% secure, but if you cut off enough services and keep
allyour daemons current, (and do not advertise the existence of your
machine and do all the human-safe things like not giving out accounts-
esp, of course privlidged ones) it can be secure enough that people will
look elsewhere to commit their pranks.
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Luis Villa wrote:
> I'd suggest looking at
>
> http://www.cert.org/nav/securityimprovement.html
>
> There is a *lot* there to read, but there are also a lot of script
> kiddies out there who can do very serious damage to your system if you
> are not careful. Furthermore, they can use your system to launch attacks
> on others- for which you may be legally liable. The various pages within
> that site are unfortunately either very cheesy or very technical, but
> they are at least a start. Hopefully others here can suggest better.
> -Luis
>
> On Sat, 1 May 1999, j wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 12:24:33 -0700
> > From: j <oi@QNET.COM>
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: ADSL and iMac and Linux
> >
> > I am going to get ADSL from my local phone company because the modem in
> > the iMac does not quite meet my expectations.
> >
> > Has anyone set up a linuxPPC box with ADSL yet.
> >
> > The ISP people are confident that it will work but i am told that people
> > can log onto the linux box because ADSL gives you a static ip.
> >
> > Besides making sure that root is password protected are there any
> > additional security measures i should take.
> >
> >
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