proxies and firewalls

it replace NATing, and how does it play a role in security with regard to NAT. what services can be proxied, is it worth having and general advice. thanks all Hiren. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

chrooting sshd for sftp

greetings i currently have users using sftp i wanted to know how to chroot sshd since i wanted the users to see only what is in there home dir's. thanks Hiren [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

pure-ftpd--ipf--jail--TLS

without TLS encryption. i was wondering what the problem could be related to. i am currently using ipf allowing port 21 through i am also NATing port 21 to my jails ip. i would appreciate some information thanks Hiren. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

problem generating certificate for postfix

greetings all i am in the process of generating a certificate for postfix i am currently trying to run the following command: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/postfix/ssl/post.rand count=1 2/dev/null the error i get is: dd: unknown operand 2 please help me thanks

running ftpd in a jail

then resorted to NATing ports 20 and 21 and using active mode for my server. i wanted to know which mode is more secure and how would i go about setting up ftpd within a jail in passive mode. i would appreciate advice and comments thanks Hiren Patel

learning source

greetings i have studied C++ and am currently going through C. i have been programming small programs in a windows environment. i want to start understanding source and help program for bsd and open source. where can i start, im totally new and i want to know how things work. i need advice