Best ways to secure POP/SMTP on server?

Hello. I have a server connected to the internet, and I wonder how I can secure my box in a good way. I have plans to set up POP3 and SMTP for my users to connect and use the services from anywhere they may be. But I also realize that by doing that, my system could be misused by other people

Logging FTP

Hello. Does anyone know if FTP-transfers/connections are logged? I tried to find any logging info in the syslog/daemon.log but it seems like it doesn't log anything. Also the documentation in /usr/doc/ftpd did not gave any hints either. Regards... Andreas PS: please CC any answers

Exim and changing domains

Hello. I have a small question about configuring Exim. Lets say I have the domain foo.bar since a long time, and now I have bought a new domain called bar.foo which I want the mail to work with. Is it correct to set these settings?: qualify_domain = foo.bar:bar.foo local_domains =

What if Debian crashes?

Hello. Here's a question which might be a little stupid, what do I do if Debian crashes? Until now I have never experienced a crash, freeze, system-/disk-fault in 3 years. I might be lucky, but I never experiment with unstable or 'frozen' distributions or applications. What tools are there to

access.log (apache) not rotated

Hello. Is it just me or isn't Apache's access.log rotated? When I browse it there's still information from 2-3 days ago. /Andreas - Debian Potato -- == andreas pålsson == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Secondary mailserver

Hello. How do I set up my debian-system to act as a secondary mailserver for another host? I know that his DNS should be configured like: IN MX 10 mail.friendsserver.org. IN MX 20 mail.myserver.org. But what I do not know is how to configure Exim on the primary and the secondary server. Anyone

time and timezones

Hello. Here's a simple question. I've not been able to set my systems time correctly. I've used 'hwclock' and set the hardware clock, and I guess it should be set to GMT. But what do I do after that? If I use 'hwclock --hctosys' the system-time will be the same as GMT and not Swedish time. And

Staroffice on Debian Potato

Anyone have experiences on installing StarOffice on Debian Potato? Any problems at all installing or running the programs? regards... Andreas -- == andreas pålsson == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Control of relaying on local domains

Hello. I'm using Listar as mailinglistsmanager on a Slink system, and I had to modify 'exim.conf' a little to allow relaying from Listar: --- #sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_net_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1/32 --- This works fine now, but I'm little concerned about security. Have I opened a

Relay problem, Listar Exim

Hello. I'm trying to set up a mailinglist-manager together with Exim, but if fails because of some unknown reason. I can perfectly mail a normal user at the host, but when I specify the list-manager in the TO:-field then Exim says it tries to relay mail. I've set the local_domains to

gettings copies of sent/recieved mails

Hello. Is it possible to get copies of mails coming in and out sent to another address? And doing this without the user sees it? This user is doing -something- less good behind my back, and I want to know what he's doing and nail him good red handed. Regards.. Andreas == andreas

Debian and router

Hello. Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? I have a Slink-box that is supposed to route traffic between 3 networks. It's equipped with 3 3Com cards and on of them is connected to a Cisco-router (Internet). Everything works between the two networks, but I can't get any

Re: Debian and router

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: Hello. Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? I have a Slink-box that is supposed to route traffic between 3 networks. It's equipped with 3 3Com cards and on of them is connected to a Cisco-router (Internet

Whole net of scriptkiddiez and wannabes

Hello. I'm about to connect my Debian-box to a LAN with alot of those 'wannabe-crackers'. I know this is not very wise, and the safest way to avoid being messed with is not to connect at all. But still, it's low cost Internet access :) I think I can secure my box quite good with SSH, ipchains

unstable stable

Hi. Is it possible to have 4 partitions where one of them is Slink, the second Potato, the third Swap and last one /home? I see no technical difficulties for both slink and potato using the same swap-partition and the same /home-partition, or am I wrong? Besides that, can anyone give me an

Re: Debian to be too late released

Stephan Hachinger wrote: Didn't think of any speacial reason, but only thought that an up-to-date distribution is always something good (surely it also becomes more attractive by this). Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger There are two reasons, NFS and RAID. NFS under Linux 2.2 is

Re: hi i got a question

Hello. When you are done configuring PPP using pppconfig, your next command is pon provider where provider is the name of your internetprovider you entered during pppconfig. To cut the connection, use poff. .A Jerry wrote: To: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to:

Debian to be too late released

Hello.. I saw on the Kernel Mailing List that there's a feature freeze now, and a possible kernel 2.4 by the end of the year. Nice news. My questions is, if Debian 2.2 is released before this date, will there be a kernel-and-depending-tools-update a few weeks after the relase of kernel 2.4? I

Block stupid/annoying sites

Hello. I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying banner-site? I've been told to use something called junkbuster but I rather not run anything extra on the host, I simply would