On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, re: More strange occurances:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Christoph Hammann wrote:
>
> > Karthik,
> > I think it can be safe to assume that your box has been rooted. A simple reinstall
>with the same Linux distro won't do you much good, because now the attacker knows
>that and how you're vulnerable.
> > Either install a safer distribution, make the original one safer or install
>OpenBSD.
> > *duck* ;-)
> > Tell me how this goes on, please.
> > Christoph
>
> :-(
>
> I have grown on RedHat and am very hesitant about installing another
> distribution. What are the ways to "make it safer"? Is there any place
> that I can read about this?
I for one see NO reason to even think about reinstalling or installing
another unix flavor.
What you want to do is add firewall chains, ipchains is the program to use.
If a certain service is not required or unnessacary stop it getting
started in /etc/inetd.conf.
Things like; netstat, finger, time, smtp, pop3, even telnet could be
closed, use in its place ssh.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -Karthik.
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