Re: Beginning to try to secure my box. Thanks so far

2002-06-08 Thread marshal
arthur == arthur dent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: arthur I have also installed from cd the Hardening Docs and will arthur begin reading those too. A couple of the replies arthur mentioned that I could disable services in the inetd.conf arthur file. Below is a copy of mine, how do

RE: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread Jan Johansson
Can I safely uninstall this service/program without affecting my p.c.? Yes. Also they recomend disabling nfs...I have nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server installed. Can I safely disable these too? Yes. I dont require them for apt-get updates etc? No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:06:30PM +1200, arthur_dent wrote: I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a home computer but may [...] One of these is portmap. I notice this is enabled by default (I think) on Woody. Can I safely uninstall this service/program without affecting my

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 12:06, arthur_dent wrote: I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a home computer but may hopefully later be linked to a second pc via 10/100 nics. That's allways a good thing :) is portmap. I notice this is enabled by default (I think) on Woody. Can I

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread Charles Baker
--- arthur_dent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a home computer but may hopefully later be linked to a second pc via 10/100 nics. I was reading a faq on the net about securing a linux box and they recomend to not have certain services enabled

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread Paladin
On 05 Jun 2002 13:58:48 +0200 Mark Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check your /etc/inetd.conf time, daytime and discard, what are these for?? -- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread marshal
You've gotten the answers to your questions, already, but I'll point you to www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ for an okay primer to hardening your box, if you don't already know about it. I'm no security expert, but it seems to coincide with most of the knowledge that I've seen

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread irado furioso com tudo
Em Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:06:30 +1200 arthur_dent [EMAIL PROTECTED], conhecido dependente de drogas (Coke e BigMac's), wrote: I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a home computer but may hopefully later be linked to a second pc via 10/100 nics.

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

2002-06-05 Thread marshal
Paladin == Paladin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paladin On 05 Jun 2002 13:58:48 +0200 Paladin Mark Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check your /etc/inetd.conf Paladin time, daytime and discard, what are these for?? You probably don't need them, and to what I heard, they