From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 11:20: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C0937BE0C for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA85300; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:19:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, apeak_2000@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Security References: <20000615164939.2204.qmail@web1609.mail.yahoo.com> <007c01bfd6ec$3c11f920$4b2b35d1@aspert.com> Date: 15 Jun 2000 14:19:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: "James A. Peltier"'s message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:07:46 -0700" Message-ID: <44ln06g62h.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "James A. Peltier" wrote (using Microsoft Outlook, which is kind of amusingly ironic as a source of security advice): > check websites like www.lopht.com www.rootshell.com hack.box.sk there > are plenty of sites on the net that can help you "think" like a cracker > to protect your machines. First thing of all, though, start at: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ paying attention primarily to the "FreeBSD Security Tips and Tricks" section. Also, get up to speed on Unix in general in order to avoid making mistakes that are presumed to be "obvious" to a system administrator, such as not running as root when you don't need to. A good start is: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html > From: Allan Peak > To: > Subject: Security > > > > I know very little about system security. Is there > > any good and easy to understand info that would help > > me defend against crackers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message