On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:11:34AM +0100, peter bunce wrote:
> I got four of these anybody know what they mean?
>
> peter b
> Subject: *** Security Check, Fri Oct 6 04:02:25 EDT 2000 ***
This is a mail sent to you by the Cron job that runs daily. It checks if there
are security issues on your system. As below, there are a lot of files with
"world writeable" attribute set ON. This means that hackers/crackers that get
into your system can mess up these data:
> Security Warning: World Writeable files found :
> - /etc/icalicense
> - /home/darklord/office52/share/config/new/_05_text.url
> - /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going
> - /var/tmp
>
> Security Warning: these home directory should not be owned by someone else or
>writeable :
> user=zope(103) : home directory is group writeable.
Again a security warning. Not something that is lethal, just a possible
security hazard.
> These are the ports listening on your machine :
> Active Internet connections (only servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
>PID/Program name
> tcp 0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN
>2441/X
> tcp 0 0 *:8021 *:* LISTEN
>622/python
Stuff like this shows the ports on your system that are internally listening to
outside stuff, i.e. internet information. You can close security gaps by
setting up a firewall (ipchains, pmfirewall), or by customizing /etc/inetd.conf
to make sure that these servers (ftp, pop3 etc.) are not running.
Good luck!
Paul
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