On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, R. J. Woodward wrote:
> OK. I do not feel bad asking this question.
>
> I am not running inetd. Therefore, nothing is listening to my (RR)
> connection. I have IPChains set up to do routing for my Win98 box behind
> my Mandrake 6.5 (or 6.1 whatever) box.
>
> What can a script kiddie do under these conditions?
Are you sure nothing is listening? I would check lpd, xdmcp (if you run
xdm/kdm/gdm),syslog and X. There is certainly no point in configuring a
firewall to block out ports where nothing is running but you might want to
check for any other services running. For example, if you run xdm, the
/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess often allows xdmcp access from anywhere by default so
anyone could get the login box.
> When I start configuring this box more aggressively, I will put Abacus on
> it, and tighten it down, but I don't think there is anything to worry about
> now.
You are probably right that you have little to worry about. Since you are
running IP masquerading already though it would be trivial to simply add a
few extra rules to block some things.
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