Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:20:28 -0500 From: "Chauncey Smith" <csmith@icdc.com> To: "Johnson David" <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Security on Workstations Message-ID: <005d01c1c3f0$97d57280$2c14fea9@ultra2000> References: <20020304185950.C995437B419@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi. I've read your post and I've found the security how to last night just wondering the web. It's to much for me to go into now and I have to admit being a new guy some of it is over my head but I can follow it like a cook book if need be. so I'm sending the link to the mailing list and you so that you may look at it at you're leasure. http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html I hope you find it helpful. Chauncey Smith ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Security on Workstations > This months DaemonNews ezine has quite a bit of information on security. > Interesting to be sure, but I don't think that information really applies to > my boxen. I only have client systems that I maintain. > > At home my system is, well, a home system. I don't run a webpage off of it, > and the only authorized user is myself. I have an SMC Barricade broadband > router between it and the rest of the world. At work I have FreeBSD on a > workstation within the company network. I have to frequently use telnet and > rlogin to connect to other company systems which don't have ssh. > > What's the best strategy for securing these machines? Currently I'm using > standard FreeBSD settings out of the box, with nothing in not in the default > enabled. NFS and RPC are disabled. > > Thanks, > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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