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Author: Nathan England
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Subject: a little security
<gun bolts clicking>

I set up the rule in ipchains so now it will only accept my connection
from my ip here at work..
I had a friend test it and it denied him.. So everything should be
kosher for now.. Unless someone spoofs an ip..
This isn't critical stuff. I want to stream my mp3s from home!!! lol
No actually it's for work, but I have a large database at home and some
apache stuff I need access to, so this is why.

But I still don't want anyone cracking my system..

Any thought appreciated.

nathan


On 07 Sep 2001 09:49:36 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> Okay, I know half of you will probably shoot me for this, but I'm doing
> it anyway...
>
> I need access to a volume on a server across the internet.
> Right now I am running samba and I am connecting by running three
> ssh tunnells to ports 137, 138, and 139 from my computer at work to the
> server. From there I mount the volumes.
>
> There has to be a more secure way than this. Especially more secure than
> samba.. I have a good password, but still any sniffer would get it in a
> few seconds. Except for the ssh tunnels, there really isn't any
> secunrity.
>
> Are there any safer ways any one knows of that I could do this?
> I'm not so worried about my security where someone sniffs me and gets my
> password, but others seeing the wide open ports and going after it..
> It's pretty stupid.
>
> I was thinking about setting ipchains to only accept the connection from
> a specific ip, but is there a better way than this? Any input helpfull.
> Thanks guys.
>
> nathan
>
>
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