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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:14:24 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Johan Berg" <jberg@jberg.pp.se>
To:        "David Schulz" <mailinglists@tca-cable-connector.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advice for Internet facing Mailserver
Message-ID:  <1336.213.66.132.131.1172402064.squirrel@webmail.uni-q.se>
In-Reply-To: <2FF03F09-23CA-44ED-87BA-673095FFE430@tca-cable-connector.com>
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The FreeBSD Handbook also have some good tips:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security.html


Regards,

-- Johan Berg


On Fri, February 23, 2007 17:17, David Schulz wrote:
> Hello and good day,
>
> i have setup a Server which is directly connected to the Internet,
> without NAT-Router or other Firewall Appliance. I am using FreeBSD
> 6.2. I have pf enabled to only allow traffic on specified Ports. I am
> using Apache-13 + Postfix + Dovecot & mysql for my Mail-system. There
> is only one /home/User, which authenticates via a Key with Pass-
> phrase to sshd. The Mail-users all authenticate to a mysql database.
> I know that i could make use of chroot or better jail to secure the
> machine from possible exploits in postfix & co, but i am not yet
> comfortable with jail. Other then keeping my Ports (and system) up to
> date, can you give me some tips on how to secure my Box a little bit?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> David
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--    Johan Berg




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