Hi, I will be setting up an ADSL connection in the next few weeks. It's going to replace an existing 56 K 24/7 connection. The system used to connect is a RedHat 8 installation with just the bare minimum of necessary packages (including ipchains) installed.
I don't have X-Windows installed on the RedHat 8 system which I'm presently using for the 56K modem connection. I found out how to make the connection by making it with a system with X-Windows and kde and looking at what files were changed in /etc/sysconfig and /etc/ppp, (using find /etc -newer marker_file) then hand editing the same files on my minimal system. This has been working fine for quite a while (3 years - it was originally done with RH 6.1 ) . I have a shell script which does the logon. I could do the same for the ADSL connection, but now I'm wondering how much of a security risk is it to have X-Windows and kde on the dial-up/firewall machine? Note that I'll have a pretty secure ipchains script running on the dialup machine. any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Bernard Doyle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
