begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:13:21PM -0800: [snip] > I discovered, much to my chagrin, that I now have to actively consider > the "default" or "suggested" installation's security settings when > using a freshly installed system. It took me no less than 20 minutes > of troubleshooting to realize that yes, Samba was running, no, the > windows systems weren't buggered, but look! iptables was configured > with rules. Ahh, system-config-securitylevel to the rescue.
One of the first things I do with a new system is to nmap it. I really think that nmap (or some port-scanning tool) and netcat should be part of the default core toolset. :) > Used to be a non-issue, which was part of the cause of the "cracked in > 10 minutes" linux boxen. Yup. > Even bit me on my PowerBook, with OS X's built-in firewall. > > It's worth it in the end, though. Amen. -Stewart "But that attitude makes us elitist!" Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
