Securing system (was gibraltar, apache and samba at the same machine)

2003-02-20 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
--> Install the "ipmasq" package. <-- I already installed that one... I'll put the firewall below echo -n "IPTables Firewall." IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" #FLUSH echo -n " Flush all tables." $IPTABLES --flush# Flush all the rules in filter an

Re: Securing system

1999-07-05 Thread Mathias Wegner
> > The standard things people will tell you to do are: > > - turn everything off > > What is "everything"? I've downloaded the lasg and have been reading > through it...but so far I have only disable things in > /etc/inetd.conf. Are there other locations that I need to be concerned with? Yo

Re: Securing system

1999-07-05 Thread Steve George
Well many daemons are controlled but not all, for example mail and RPC are not. You can see what is running on your system with netstat: netstat -a --inet Any socket with LISTEN is dangerous since it can be connected to. The other place to look for daemons being started is /etc/innitta

Re: Securing system

1999-07-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 10:55:44PM +0100, Steve George wrote: > The first thing you should do is comment telnet back in until you > have drawn up your security strategy ;-) Okay! :) > > The standard things people will tell you to do are: > - turn everything off What is "everything"? I've

Re: Securing system

1999-07-05 Thread Dan Nguyen
The only thing you might trust is ssh. The only way to be safe is to not have your computer connected to the internet at all. :) In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Hi Mark, : The first thing you should do is comment telnet back in until you have drawn up your security strategy ;-) :

Re: Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Mark" == Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> order to telnet into my gateway (is that right?)). But i've read Mark> in the past that telnet isn't very secure and that people can Mark> intercept logins and passwords when one telnets to a computer. If the packages pass theri box. For

Re: Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Steve George
Hi Mark, The first thing you should do is comment telnet back in until you have drawn up your security strategy ;-) The standard things people will tell you to do are: - turn everything off - use inetd/wrappers with PARANOIA for anything you *have* to have on - use packet

Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: Okay. I seem to have my two computers networked together. In fact I've telneted into my machine that has a direct internet connection to write this email. I have some questions on how to go about making my system more secure. When I first had my cable modem installed, one of the first th