On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't fully understand all the vagaries of access to root, but I do > want to warn you about having any open ports or users with password > authentication only. > > Be really careful about dictionary style attacks.
Agreed - xs will soon have SOTP, but in the meantime, very strong passwords are recommended. > ClamAV is also handy, especially if you have Web, PHP, SQL ports visible No. This is a bit of confusion -- ClamAV is for Linux machines that want to protect Windows machines by filtering content. ClamAV does _nothing_ for your linux machine. In particular, it does not protect PHP or SQL engines. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
