Peter Bartosch wrote: > > hi, debians > > i'm willing to setup a firewall, and therefor i'm asking myself how insecure > it is, to provide some other services (e.g. like apache) on the same > machine?? is it to risky?
All I know is that this is strongly discouraged. Each extra package give room for other problems, so all suggest doing the following. Setting up a Firewall with as few services as possible. No extra packages like X11, Compiler etc. and another server for the web services. I think it's a question how parnoid you are;-). If you don't care about break-ins, why than doing a firewall at all? If you just say, I don't want ot make it too easy you can provide other services, but you should be aware that you deal security witch convinience. Regards Friedrich
