Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-08 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
George -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of SilverTip257 Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:21 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5 Marvin, You're leaving SSH open

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-08 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 2:43 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5 On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, SilverTip257 wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com Subject: Re

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-04 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, SilverTip257 wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5 Marvin, You're leaving SSH open to the world with that. If this is a box behind a firewall

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/04/2012 01:43 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, SilverTip257 wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5 Marvin, You're leaving SSH open to the world

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 02:37:54AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Moving the port to a non-standard port is better than nothing ... but only be a very slight bit. It might work on the least knowledgeable script kiddies who only look at port 22, but it will do nothing to hide the fact that it is

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-03 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
We have a simple configuration so we could get by with this -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s SOURCIPADDRESS -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited it doesn't scale well but servies the purpose.

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-03 Thread SilverTip257
Marvin, You're leaving SSH open to the world with that. If this is a box behind a firewall, then it's not _as much of a concern_ ... otherwise you're opening that server up to ssh brute force attempts. Your existing configuration is probably set up to drop/reject if traffic does not match any of