Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 05:17:31 -0500 From: Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.lets.net> To: Chest Rockwell <cdgaming@msn.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New BSD user with a couple Qs Message-ID: <20020314051731.A56353@nomad.lets.net> In-Reply-To: <F18vFnciebfCrxZ3mFQ00006b53@hotmail.com>; from cdgaming@msn.com on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:36:29AM -0600 References: <F18vFnciebfCrxZ3mFQ00006b53@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:36:29AM -0600, Chest Rockwell wrote: > > I've read a couple docs on how to secure my machine. I just installed 4.4 > stable. I turned off pretty much everything except for ftp(users only, no > anon) and ssh. I am a little familiar with redhat and remember editing my > hosts.deny file so that it locked out everyone except for my home and work FreeBSD uses hosts.allow only. > machines. I think that I need to edit the /etc/rc.firewall file. Is this a > good idea to deny everyone except for a few users and how would I do that? > > I'm running 4.4 stable. Is that good enough or should I get the 4.5 > release? Depends. 4.4 is good, but 4.5 has some networking and NFS fixes/improvements. > > Do I need to upgrade/update any files or do anything else to secure the > machine? If so, could you send me a good link or give me some help please? man security http://www.freebsd.org/security -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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