Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall Rules and problems being reported by rkhunter & chkrootkit

2011-02-10 Thread Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)
I am not a security expert but would like to give my suggestions. On 02/10/2011 06:07 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: Hi Some days back i posted a problem / warnings reported by chkrootkit A port 4000 came up with this error message Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 4000) You can check your sy

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall Rules and problems being reported by rkhunter & chkrootkit

2011-02-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > one suggestion i got was to deny inbound traffic > > how does one do that > > in firestarter it only provides options to allow inbound traffic not deny ?? > so i figured out firestarter and have these rules in place inbound allow bittorrent -

[ubuntu-in] Firewall Rules and problems being reported by rkhunter & chkrootkit

2011-02-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Some days back i posted a problem / warnings reported by chkrootkit A port 4000 came up with this error message Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 4000) I also ran rkhunter these were the "warnings" i got [11:03:54] /usr/sbin/unhide [ Warning ] [11:03:54] Warning: The file '/usr/sbin

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-17 Thread mallikarjun arjun
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:04 AM, mallikarjun arjun > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SELinux is a Linux feature that provides a variety of security policies, > As > > per my knowledge SELinux does more than a firewall can do.

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread shirish
Hi all, just to clear mistakes, ufw does use iptables. See depends of ufw apt-cache show ufw | grep Depends Depends: debconf, python (>= 2.5), python-central (>= 0.6.7), iptables (>= 1.4.0), ucf -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommo

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:04 AM, mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SELinux is a Linux feature that provides a variety of security policies, As > per my knowledge SELinux does more than a firewall can do. This is not a off > topic post. Please correct me if i am wrong. Would you mind

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread mallikarjun arjun
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Try SELinux. Its there from long time > > 1. I don't think SELinux has anything to do with firewall. Please > correct me if I am wrong. > 2. I agree with Mehul. A proxy server is better suited for such purpose. SELinux

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread Onkar Shinde
> Try SELinux. Its there from long time 1. I don't think SELinux has anything to do with firewall. Please correct me if I am wrong. 2. I agree with Mehul. A proxy server is better suited for such purpose. @Mallikarjun, Please follow mailing list guidelines - http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/index.php/M

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread mallikarjun arjun
Best Regards Mallikarjun V On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Aditya M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/keeping-safe/C/firewall.html > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 20:24, Amit Sarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> dear all >> i am trying to setup a office enviourment in the u

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread Mehul Ved
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Fabian Enos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > iptables is the default firewall in ubuntu and if you need a graphical > utility to manage it the try firestarter > 'sudo apt-get install firestarter' Ubuntu comes with ufw already. But, it's still newer compared to other to

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread Aditya M
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/keeping-safe/C/firewall.html On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 20:24, Amit Sarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all > i am trying to setup a office enviourment in the ubuntu for 5 PCs. > > i also plan to give them the net access, but i would like to install a > firewall and

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread Fabian Enos
iptables is the default firewall in ubuntu and if you need a graphical utility to manage it the try firestarter 'sudo apt-get install firestarter' though i am not sure if you can restrict the sites On 10/16/08, Amit Sarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all > i am trying to setup a office envio

[ubuntu-in] Firewall

2008-10-16 Thread Amit Sarda
dear all i am trying to setup a office enviourment in the ubuntu for 5 PCs. i also plan to give them the net access, but i would like to install a firewall and allow only a few websites to be accessed. does ubuntu have a default firewall? can some1 guide in the same. with regards Amit Sarda --