On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 03:20:27PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Quite. It is ALL there. I keep hoping that something will be the basics for
beginners (which is where we started on this thread). Teaching notes for
college sounded great.
Also have a read of this:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:11:29 +1300
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 03:20:27PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Quite. It is ALL there. I keep hoping that something will be the
basics for beginners (which is where we started on this thread).
Teaching
On Monday 13 October 2014 10:11:29 Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 03:20:27PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Quite. It is ALL there. I keep hoping that something will be the basics
for beginners (which is where we started on this thread). Teaching notes
for college sounded
On Saturday 11 October 2014 21:27:56 Peter Zoeller wrote:
Hi:
I might be able to help here as well. I have some teaching notes
somewhere when I taught system security at my college.
Thanks!!
Lisi
Peter
On 09/10/14 05:03 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 09 October 2014 21:59:12
On Saturday 11 October 2014 22:59:23 Reco wrote:
Dear list contributors,
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:27:56 -0400
Peter Zoeller peter_zoel...@rogers.com wrote:
Hi:
I might be able to help here as well. I have some teaching notes
somewhere when I taught system security at my college.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:20:27 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
Quite. It is ALL there. I keep hoping that something will be the
basics for beginners (which is where we started on this thread).
Teaching notes for college sounded great.
You basically have two options, to use a
On Du, 12 oct 14, 17:18:10, Joe wrote:
You basically have two options, to use a firewall tool, or to hack a
script yourself. The existing tools, last time I looked, aren't really
that versatile, they are intended to make simple firewalls using a GUI.
That's reasonable, because once you want
just as a general comment, ufw is workable
almost out of the box, it has a gui interface
gufw. a while ago i used the arno-iptables-
firewall script as that also did what i needed
to have done.
my problem is that i tend to not do much
with things once they are set up and working
so
Hi:
I might be able to help here as well. I have some teaching notes
somewhere when I taught system security at my college.
Peter
On 09/10/14 05:03 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 09 October 2014 21:59:12 Charlie wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:54:48 +0200 lee sent:
I still have a very
Dear list contributors,
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:27:56 -0400
Peter Zoeller peter_zoel...@rogers.com wrote:
Hi:
I might be able to help here as well. I have some teaching notes
somewhere when I taught system security at my college.
Peter
On 09/10/14 05:03 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:08:05 -0700
koanhead koanh...@riseup.net wrote:
Any service you're not currently using should be disabled. Any
service you won't use should not be installed.
Yeah. But ;/ The devil is in the details.
Where is a list of services.
There's one at /etc/services.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:58:53PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 06:18:09 +1000
Stuart Longland stua...@longlandclan.yi.org wrote:
The hard bit about things like firewalling, is that there is really a
minimum technical understanding necessary to do it properly.
You've
lee wrote:
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes:
I'm aware of Securing Debian Manual. I'm looking for more an
introductory document.
I'm not sure what you're looking for.
Unfortunately that makes two of us. But I'm seeing a definition
evolve as incoming replies nibble around the edge
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:54:48AM +0200, lee wrote:
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes:
I'm aware of Securing Debian Manual. I'm looking for more an
introductory document.
I'm not sure what you're looking for. It's a good idea to have at least
a good basic understanding about
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:54:48 +0200 lee sent:
I still have a very good tutorial that uses iptables and helps you to
learn how to build a firewall. I've archived it for reference in
2003. I could send it to you by email if you like (760kB).
I would be very interested in this as well Lee.
On Thursday 09 October 2014 21:59:12 Charlie wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:54:48 +0200 lee sent:
I still have a very good tutorial that uses iptables and helps you to
learn how to build a firewall. I've archived it for reference in
2003. I could send it to you by email if you like (760kB).
koanhead wrote:
On 10/06/2014 04:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian...
I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off
Debian and also give me the required information to:
1. close the maximum number of ports.
I see
On 09/10/14 00:12, Richard Owlett wrote:
koanhead wrote:
On 10/06/2014 04:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian...
I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off
Debian and also give me the required information to:
1.
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014, Richard Owlett wrote:
Yes. I've a reference somewhere on how to do that. What I was looking
for was a document that covers it for someone who likely only has a
vague idea of what a packet is.
For a basic firewall configuration, the default ferm configuration is
almost
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 06:18:09 +1000
Stuart Longland stua...@longlandclan.yi.org wrote:
The hard bit about things like firewalling, is that there is really a
minimum technical understanding necessary to do it properly.
You've got that right. Years ago, I despaired of ever understanding
On 10/08/2014 07:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
koanhead wrote:
On 10/06/2014 04:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian...
I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off
Debian and also give me the required information to...
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes:
I'm aware of Securing Debian Manual. I'm looking for more an
introductory document.
I'm not sure what you're looking for. It's a good idea to have at least
a good basic understanding about how a firewall works before you set one
up. From there, you
On Lu, 06 oct 14, 06:11:36, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm aware of Securing Debian Manual. I'm looking for more an introductory
document.
You might want to start documenting this yourself on wiki.debian.org.
Feel free to add to FAQsFromDebianUser or create a new page.
The content could come form
On 10/06/2014 04:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian...
I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off
Debian and also give me the required information to:
1. close the maximum number of ports.
I see him using
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 06 oct 14, 06:11:36, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm aware of Securing Debian Manual. I'm looking for more an introductory
document.
You might want to start documenting this yourself on wiki.debian.org.
I'm halfway doing that already by collecting answers to my
I'm a relatively new convert from Windows to Debian, although
I've been a computer _user_ since the early 60's. I've evidently
been talking up Linux enough that a friend is shipping a spare
laptop with a request that I install my preferred version. [He is
hesitant about his ability to do so
On 10/06/2014 02:11 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my friend off
Debian and also give me the required information to:
1. close the maximum number of ports.
I see him using browser, email, ftp file downloading.
I don't see him being
On 06/10/14 21:11, Richard Owlett wrote:
I intend to set it up as multi-boot:
1. whatever Windows is on it
2. Squeeze LTS with Gnome2 - I like it and believe he will like its
human interface.
3. Wheezy with KDE - Wheezy is more uptodate and I suspect would want
some KDE specific
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
On 10/06/2014 02:11 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm looking for a reference document that wouldn't scare my
friend off Debian and also give me the required information to:
1. close the maximum number of ports.
I see him using browser, email, ftp file
Stuart Longland wrote:
On 06/10/14 21:11, Richard Owlett wrote:
I intend to set it up as multi-boot:
1. whatever Windows is on it
2. Squeeze LTS with Gnome2 - I like it and believe he will like its
human interface.
3. Wheezy with KDE - Wheezy is more uptodate and I suspect would want
On Monday 06 October 2014 13:38:45 Richard Owlett wrote:
Yes, but not for this project. I'm from the CPM-80 era and think
default Linux installs are just *TOO* big and want to carry small
to possibly an extreme.
And you're considering _KDE_?!
Lisi
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Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 06 October 2014 13:38:45 Richard Owlett wrote:
Yes, but not for this project. I'm from the CPM-80 era and think
default Linux installs are just *TOO* big and want to carry small
to possibly an extreme.
And you're considering _KDE_?!
*NOT* for _my_ personal
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:28:11 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 06 October 2014 13:38:45 Richard Owlett wrote:
Yes, but not for this project. I'm from the CPM-80 era and think
default Linux installs are just *TOO* big and want to carry small
to possibly an extreme.
On 06/10/14 22:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
2. Squeeze LTS with Gnome2 - I like it and believe he will like its
human interface.
3. Wheezy with KDE - Wheezy is more uptodate and I suspect would want
some KDE specific applications.
Have you had a look at XFCE?
Yes, but not for this
Stuart Longland writes:
I can recall once squeezing (desktop) Linux onto a 100MB hard drive.
You wouldn't do that reasonably today.
As a data point, the Core Project provides a FLTK/FLWM desktop Linux in
a 15MB distro, and a 72MB 'CorePlus' distro providing a range of
desktops, including
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