From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 0: 4:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE4337C26A for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.14 #1) id 130Ip1-000N0J-00; Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:03:15 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:03:15 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Security for a lonely desktop Message-ID: <20000609090315.L81376@draenor.org> References: <20000608174110.A24158@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000608174110.A24158@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:41:10PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It all depends. I would say that if you want total peace of mind you should set up a firewall. It's slight overkill for a dialup, but it can come in handy. :) See: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/dialup-firewall/index.html for more info. Cheers, Marc On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:41:10PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > 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. > -- > David Kanter > djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message