From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 7:41:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14406.mail.yahoo.com (web14406.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A20337B400 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 07:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020408144125.8556.qmail@web14406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.122.80.31] by web14406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:41:25 BST Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:41:25 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mr=20Munkeh?= Subject: FreeBSD Security To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-2055540371-1018276885=:8188" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0-2055540371-1018276885=:8188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi im looking for some security help on FreeBSD, im using it as a workstation pc and not as a server so i dont want to be hosting any services to the outside world, im using FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE and have the following open ports: Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 514/udp open syslog 587/tcp open submission 2504/tcp open unknown how do i close all none needed ports so other people cant access them and does anyone recommend a good firewall program thats in the ports system? i have used portsentry but had some errors, something about stealth, i had a look on google but didnt find any documentation that could help. If anyone knows how to get portsentry working or recommends another firewall please email me, thanks. -Munk3h --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Get personalised at My Yahoo!. --0-2055540371-1018276885=:8188 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

hi im looking for some security help on FreeBSD, im using it as a workstation pc and not as a server so i dont want to be hosting any services to the outside world, im using FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE and have the following open ports:

Port       State       Service
22/tcp     open        ssh                    
25/tcp     open        smtp                   
514/udp    open        syslog                 
587/tcp    open        submission             
2504/tcp   open        unknown

how do i close all none needed ports so other people cant access them and does anyone recommend a good firewall program thats in the ports system? i have used portsentry but had some errors, something about stealth, i had a look on google but didnt find any documentation that could help. If anyone knows how to get portsentry working or recommends another firewall please email me, thanks.

-Munk3h


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