"der.hans" wrote: > > Am 11. Mar, 2002 schwätzte George Toft so: > > > This machine is not connected to the Internet without a > > firewall, is it? Please say it isn't. > > It's obviously a mostly default RH 7.x box running KDE. While it sucks that > portmap and other atrocities get started up, some of those services are > configured to ignore external connections and it does have a basic ipchains > firewall ( provided it hasn't been disabled ). > > My redirection service appears to be having probs, so here's a temporary URL > for my RH setup and secure doc I wrote last year. > > http://arizona.speedchoice.com/~lufthans/unix/docs/HOWTO/securing_RedHat.html > > I just ran through 7.2 last week. This doc still mostly applies. > > Yes, George, I know it's EBo's machine, not yours, but I wanted to respond > to your comment ;-). He should go over my doc :). agreed and thanks... EBo --