Daniel, > First, let me say that I am sorry you didn't appreciate the response, and the > implied criticism of your plan. It was absolutely not my intention to offend, > but rather to continue to question my own assumptions in the face of someone > who disagreed with me. > > I regret that my statements came across poorly, and left you feeling unhappy. > > Nothing I have seen on the list that you said has made me the slightest bit unhappy. Your comments are worthwhile and I appreciate them.
Amin made a comment last night which he later apologised for. Apparently some drunken mate had his iPhone. The message did not make it to the list - I thought it had - so you would not have seen it. I will leave it to your imagination as to what it inferred. I have a several occasions advised the department of our configuration and security configuration but unfortunately, teachers get promoted into technical positions and they freely admit they haven't a clue about what I am saying. That adds to my difficulties as you can imagine and one has to wonder what sort of technology decisions they are making. A colleague of mine is helping me craft some IPtables which with further tighten the internal one way mirror which currently lets the internal network open access to the server. We are going to allow only ports 80 and 22 to access the server from inside and as he represents the manufacturer of the firewall appliance (ePipe) we use, he will assist me to turn off the factory opened ports (1723 and 2000). I believe that when we make these changes, the system will be very tight and as we use only pre-built software (Moodle, Joomla, Meeting Room Booking Service and Gallery) which I keep very much up to date, we should be OK. The Gallery is only viewable from inside the school because of privacy issues. Thanks again for your very valuable input and my apologies if I insinuated that you had upset me. It was a reference to another's comments (see above). Regards, Rick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
