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Subject: A brief tutorial on closing the barn doors?
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From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@serv.net>
Date: 15 Sep 1999 13:35:26 -0700
In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:52:16 +0100"
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As time goes on, my general lassez-faire attitude toward system security in the
home is gradually changing.  In the face of 24/7 net connections, I'm beginning
to think that the free Uni distributions should default to "nothing open."

They don't, of course---not yet, anyway.

So the time has come where I need to close up the box.  I still want port 80
open, and a couple of others.  I need to be able to do a remote login.  But
that's pretty much it; the rest I'd like to configure on an as-needed basis.
I'd also like to log all the sniffing it receives.

So where do I start?  I have a FreeBSD box hanging off a DSL connection.  Where
do I look for information on how to start locking the doors?


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