On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Timothy Bolz wrote: > I had a person who is a Cisco certified network guy tell me unix boxes > are easier to get into than windows. He's very knowledgeable and says > he's one of 5000 certified in the world.
Not to be dismissive, but if I had a quarter for every yarn I heard from a CCNE... > I don't know if he's worked in Linux or not. > My box at work is a Debian GNU/Linux box and he knows the ip address of it. > He said a hacker could gain access to it if they know the ip address. I said > I have ipchains installed. My question is that enought or do I have to close > down the ports too. He thinks someone could gain access to my box even > though I'm running Linux with ipchains. He ruffled my feathers and I don't > like it, especially when I don't know how to respond to someone who might > know. What I'm saying is my box is on a private network 192.168.x.x which > other people on that network who I don't know get on. What can I do to > protect my box besides turning it off at night or unplugging it from the > network. Any links or pointers would be helpful. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html -po _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
