From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 06:48:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655B816A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:48:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.oteglobe.net (mail.oteglobe.net [62.75.2.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5018743D2F for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:48:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bookman@oteglobe.net) Received: from bookmanlaptop (trilluser@[172.21.62.26]) by mail.oteglobe.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) with SMTP id i21EmS601231 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:48:28 +0200 (EET) From: "Konstantinos Fotiadis" To: Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:48:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" 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) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Subject: General Security Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bookman@oteglobe.net List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:48:31 -0000 Greetings list, As a newbie to security I would like to ask any recommendation that the list might have. We are about to "install" a new box with 4.9 stable to the nice and innocent internet world. :-P The box has no services running expect apache and we telnet to it via SSH. Main function of this box will be graphing various interfaces via rrdtool. So, I would like to ask if there is any other precautions that I must take in order to sleep safe at night. Should I check for any other opened ports ? Should I do something with the kernel to be more secure ? I know this ain't so easy, but let's say my main scope is to get a least a decent sleep :-) Kind Regards, Kostas