From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 15 6:34:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1C1553C for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arash@nttmcl.com) Received: from localhost by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.8.5/3.5W(96/10/22)) id GAA03224; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:34:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Arash Farahmand To: James Gill Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is having the ports secure? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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