Re: [Sheflug] Security

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Craig Andrews wrote:
> 
> As a dial-up user, I'm rarely connected for long, but I like to be safe.

 Same here, but even in the space of an hour I can get a few 'hits'.

 
> I think I will disable everything bar sendmail and ident (I'm not on a
> network, so I never use telnet, ftp or whatever anyhow) and I'll look into
> ipchains etc for protecting whats left.

 Even if you do use ftp to download stuff, you can turn off the ftp
server on your machine.

 Why are you running sendmail? It's way up on the list of things to kill
if you don't need it. If you need/want to run a mailserver, try qmail -
it was built with security in mind.

 Baz.  


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