From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 09:46:40 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 1599016A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from buexe.b-5.de (buexe.b-5.de [80.148.32.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D1E43D1F for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lupe@lupe-christoph.de) Received: from antalya.lupe-christoph.de ([172.17.0.9])i21Hk3k09291; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:46:03 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antalya.lupe-christoph.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2705CB88C; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:45:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from antalya.lupe-christoph.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (antalya [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07875-01-7; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:45:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by antalya.lupe-christoph.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95CA0B889; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:45:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:45:57 +0100 To: Konstantinos Fotiadis Message-ID: <20040301174557.GD2569@lupe-christoph.de> References: <40436FB0.8040600@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at lupe-christoph.de cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General Security Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 17:46:40 -0000 On Monday, 2004-03-01 at 19:21:28 +0200, Konstantinos Fotiadis wrote: > Yeap, sendmail is down. > However inetd.conf is up but it only starts the SSH daemon. Is this a > problem-threat ? No, but it is not needed, and you should turn off everything you do not need. Run sshd in standalone mode. It's much faster that way, anyway, because it computes a key on every start. Put this in /etc/rc.conf: sshd_enable="YES" > PS: Is this the right list for security questions or not ? Cause I got an > e-mail from someone that this isn't.... It is *meant* for developers discussion security issues. But that rarely happens, and there is no list for security-related discussions but lowly users. So this list acquired that function. The majority does not object, to that change, probably because they feel that this function is needed. So do I. I have no time to read freebsd-questions, and I mostly don't care for the discussions there. I would be entirely in favour of freebsd-security-questions, but nobody seems to be willing to start it. (Ducks in anticipation of flames.) Lupe Christoph -- | lupe@lupe-christoph.de | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | "Violence is the resort of the violent" Lu Tze | | "Thief of Time", Terry Pratchett |