--- Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Michael Kjorling wrote: > > >>BTW, if you are directly connected through your > ISP and your computer is > >>given a Public Internet address, you should change > that ASAP. > > ... > > > Second, a firewall and a NAT device is NOT the > same thing! Amazing how > > many make mistakes like that... as well as calling > a firewall/NAT > > combo a router. I have several computers on public > IP addresses behind > > firewalls and it works just great, and the > firewalls do their job and > > keep unwanted traffic out. > > I'm still figuring out security on Linux... > > All three of the computers I have are running Red > Hat (9, on my laptop and old desktop, and Enterprise > > 3 on my main desktop/server. > > My computers all definitely show up with an Internet > > address assigned to me by my ISP... CompuServe... > when I dial in. > > All three have the firewalls that are built into Red > > Hat up and running with eth0 as a trusted device > (for incoming services on my mini-LAN, on which I am > > the only person), with ppp0 'not trusted' and with > all other incoming traffic disallowed. Eventually I > will probably permit http, so I can mess with > apache, and learn about that, and later more stuff, > as I learn more what I am doing, one thing at a > time. > > I also have services I don't use... like sendmail... > > turned off. > > So far, to the best of my knowledge, I haven't been > cracked... nothing weird in the process list or > logs, and the computers all run well... no > degradation of service. > > I ran Windows almost exclusively for a long time, > and never picked up any viruses or spyware... I'm > pretty careful with my computers. > > Question... do you know any decent Linux security > books or authors, that are also reasonably > comprehensible, that you would recommend? > > I don't want to buy anything over my head (about two > > years running Linux as a user, 6 months studying > admini), or anything totally lame. > > thanks, > > -- > -wittig
www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-The-Ultimate-Solution-v2.0.pdf a pdf file on optimising and securing linux. tldp = The Linux Documentation Project. all the howtos, man pages, and most other documentation can be found on thier site. from really basic to extremely advanced user base. even after using linux for 8 years I spend a lot of time reading the contents of tldp. Jaqui support your local resource reallocation specialist, keep the dumpsters unlocked. plain text files only. m$ .doc not readable. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
