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
> > 


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