Yes, I have to shut down my server at night to
prevent someone from cracking in.
I will slog though the ipchains and firewall howtos
until I can't go on any more, I can't have those
script kiddies gonking my machine anymore.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mewed:
> A side note, but related:
>
> I haven't even TRIED to make my box secure - just followed directions in
> various how-to's. Apparently someone tried to hack/crack my box while I was
> sitting here.
>
> I saw my eth0 (dsl) connection suddenly spike for a few minutes. Asked my
> buddy if it was him, did a last on each of the user names to see who was logged
> in, couldn't find anything.
>
> Later I was looking in the samba logs - sure enough, a denied ip was there.
>
> Ain't linux great?
>
> Ty C. Mixon
> F.T.C. Enterprises
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ 26147713
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