Grant wrote: >> > It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be >> > intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't >> > know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things >> > should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have >> > time to get too crazy with security right now, but what kinds of >> > simple tricks might this fellow learn by asking around on forums, etc? >> >> I assuming your server is a web host and it only is using port 80 >> (http) traffic. > > I do log in via ssh (port 22 I think) and it's also a mail server. > How can I check which ports are open? Does shorewall handle that?
This is my theory. If you can, install webmin and shorewall. You can use webmin to configure shorewall from what I have read. Basically you want to block all but what you need to keep open, including ssh. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
