From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 23 15:28:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from clavin.efn.org (clavin.efn.org [206.163.176.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E8737B6F7 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 15:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdeless@efn.org) Received: from garcia.efn.org (bdeless@garcia.efn.org [206.163.176.5]) by clavin.efn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4NMSMx15408; Tue, 23 May 2000 15:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bdeless@localhost) by garcia.efn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4NMSKj24555; Tue, 23 May 2000 15:28:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: garcia.efn.org: bdeless owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 15:28:18 -0700 (PDT) From: BD To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web Server and Xwindows In-Reply-To: <200005230358.LAA35900@netrinsics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've never used or installed IPSEC although I'm aware that is part of 4.0(?). Since I will only use X localy is this still necessary? I had planned to use ipfw to block X at the interface. I am completly ignorant when it comes to securing X (that's why I've never used it before). I apologize if this should have gone to questions but I felt this list was probably where I would get the best answer. (list newbie) Thanks Again, Robert On Tue, 23 May 2000, Michael Robinson wrote: > >I currently run a web site on a 4.0 box using the > >current version of Apache. I must confess a desire to install X(w/KDE) > >now. This box is in the DMZ, has PHP3 and MySQL. Sendmail is also handled here. > > Use IPSEC. > > -Michael Robinson > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message