This may help. http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html
There are other spots out there with BSD lockdown steps and google typically picks em up. --- Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I do not think that nessus is the best way > to check > security in your case. I would probably try to check > manually > by figuring out what services I am running and > checking with > appropriate web sites to find out if there are known > vulnerabilities. > Also you should probably shut down everything you do > not need and close > every port you do not intend to use remotely. > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:31:51PM +0200, Bernie > wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Bernie wrote: > > > > > > > i got freebsd on my machine with ipfw. there > is no lan > > > > on it and i only use dial-up to ISP. > > > > > > > > i'd like to test my sys with nessus and > started doing > > > > so until i read in the FAQ that if you have > firewall > > > > between nessusd and the system you want to > scan, the > > > > results may be inacurate. > > > > > > I wouldn't trust any test against the local > system. If you want to test it > > > then bring it online and test from another > system. (Perhaps a neighbor or > > > friend) > > > > > > Hugo. > > > > > > -- > > > > Thank you for your reply. saved me a lot of time > and at least now i know i > > might not be secure... > > > > as you said, a frient'll be the solution... > > > > Regards, > > > > --Bernie > > ===== ------------------------------------------------------- It is easier to denature Plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man ------------------------------------------------------- Albert Einstein __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
