From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 4 18:50:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns6.icdc.com (ns6.icdc.com [208.244.152.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDAA37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ultra2000 (peco.6.intrepid.icdc.com [208.244.152.60]) by ns6.icdc.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g252o0U13862; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:50:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <005d01c1c3f0$97d57280$2c14fea9@ultra2000> From: "Chauncey Smith" To: "Johnson David" , References: <20020304185950.C995437B419@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Security on Workstations Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:20:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To: 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