Yesterday, my friend's server got cracked. The cracker planted Rootedoor
Trojan on his server and deleted quite some important files from the
system. Now he is crazy for finding out other abnormal and recovering
everything.
I began to worry about my own gentoo box. Basically, I am a layman of
li
On February 1, 2005 08:06 am, myang wrote:
> I began to worry about my own gentoo box. Basically, I am a layman
> of linux so far. I am running Apache, openssh, postfix and mysql
> service here. I don't know a little about system security. Now I'd
> like to begin to learn something and do something
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, myang wrote:
>
> Where should I begin from? What should I do to secure my system?
>
> MF
>
There is a good doc on gentoo.org:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml
You should read some docs on iptables.org, they have a good tutorial.
And my 0.02$. Do not give she
On February 1, 2005 09:03 am, Tamas Sarga wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, myang wrote:
> > Where should I begin from? What should I do to secure my system?
> >
> > MF
>
> There is a good doc on gentoo.org:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml
>
> You should read some docs on iptables.org
If you are looking to secure a home machine, a few things worth doing:
USERS
Don't let them use root, disable shell access, make yourself a member of the
wheel group so only you can use su.
INTERNET
To protect yourself from snoopers on the internet and assuming you have no
services you wish to
