From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 18:34:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D0B37B7A4 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from hairy (hutch-429.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.79]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA08849; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:34:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "David J. Kanter" , "FreeBSD questions" Subject: RE: Security for a lonely desktop Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:35:49 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000608174110.A24158@localhost.localdomain> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David J. Kanter > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:41 PM > To: FreeBSD questions > Subject: Security for a lonely desktop > > > I run FreeBSD on a desktop, hook up to the Internet via a modem (with > dynamic IP address assigning) and am the only user of this machine. Is > security that much of an issue for someone like me, such that I'd have to > make changes to the default FreeBSD set up? > > I've read about closing down inetd services that I'd never use: > telnet, ftp, > etc. Even turning off the sendmail daemon. Or, compiling a > firewall into my > kernel. But are these really necessary for a guy like me? > > I'm interested in what people have to say. I run a pretty much similar system, and I've never had a problem. I am sure that someone could hack my system if they wanted to, but no one ever has. For me it is easier to restore from backups and reinstall than to be paranoid about someone cracking a 486 with 400 megs of disk space. Josh > -- > David Kanter > djkanter@nwu.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message