On Thursday October 17 2002 03:46 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, I'm a newbie at MDK 9.0 i586 of 5 hours standing.
>
> I installed at the "higher" security setting.
It's a good idea, specially with a new install (or upgrade) to set
the minimum security level. Then move up later if a higher level is
needed. For most all destop systems the 'standard' level is the correct
one. Any higher and you only start to lock yourself out of the system.
> I enabled the Firewall and depressed all the (other) checkboxes.
I suppose that'd be shorewall. I couldn't get my head around it. No
matter how much I played with it, I couldn't get mail, connect to news,
ftp, or surf the web. At least not all at once. I installed
guarddog-2.0.0-2mdk and it seems very simple to get a great firewall
going, and still be able to use the system ;) All of the scans at
http://scan.sygatetech.com/ show me locked up jelly tight, don't
even exist ;) FWIW, as I normally do I also have portsentry-1.1-3mdk
(compiled from src.rpm) installed and runnin also.
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