Willem-Jan Meijer said: > Hello, > > A question about Gibraltar. I'm not Bill Gates, so I can't afford another > computer, but I want to secure my system. I want to try Gibraltar, and I > want to run this on an existing Debian machine, together with Apache, > Samba and so on. Is this possible? If not, what is a good package to > secure my system? I run apache, samba, ssh and ftp.
from the looks of it, what I see Gibraltar is a Linux CDROM-based distro that runs a firewall. If you are really good with linux you can probably hack together a new CDROM with Gibraltar and samba, apache and ftp, and ssh. Only very experienced users would be able to do this I think(I added a buncha stuff to a ThinkNIC CD and it wasn't easy, took several days to compile and test, with about 20 burned CDs in the process). if you want to secure your system a good firewall would be a good start, debian comes with iptables for 2.4.x kernels and ipchains for 2.2.x kernels, I would reccomend reading something like the FIREWALL HOWTO in order to get a basic grasp on setting up a firewall. This document should be available at the linux documentation project(www.tldp.org). but securing a system involves much more then just installing a package or installing a firewall, it is a process that can take a serious amount of time to learn(this applies to most any system). So it depends on the level of security your looking for. If your a newbie your best bet IS to have a 2nd machine acting as a firewall, and blocking everything by default. That is the easiest way to a more secure network. You don't require a 2nd machine but with only 1 it significantly increases the risk and work required to secure it. That's not to say it isn't possible, just more difficult then it otherwise would be. good luck nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
