Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:34:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Arash Farahmand <arash@nttmcl.com> To: James Gill <gill@topsecret.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is having the ports secure? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95LJ1.1b4.990715063152.3173A-100000@alicia.nttmcl.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADAEBDCJAA.gill@topsecret.net>
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Hi James, Of course you don't need to install all ports collection! -- Arash On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, James Gill wrote: > Hi.. > > If i'm trying to make a secure installation (for example a firewall box) > that will run only a finite set of services (NAT, firewalling, DNS, and not > very much else), wouldn't it be better (more secure) to not install the > whole ports collection but only the specific ports for the services I want? > Aside from the (forty?) megabytes I would save on the already pretty small > disk. > > Am I on the right track here? > > ===================================== > James Gill * http://www.topsecret.net > ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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