From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 14:58:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F171537B7C8 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12aRPE-000Hki-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:57:44 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12aRPE-0006L7-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:57:44 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:57:44 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help securing an out-of-box installation Message-ID: <20000329235744.E50487@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott wrote: > My experience has been with securing Linux and Solaris boxes - > commenting out non-needed services in /etc/inetd.conf, looking for > SUID and GUID programs, installing SSH, etc. > > What specifics are needed for FreeBSD, also considering this system > will likely double as a firewall. The security(7) manpage might help you. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message