"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 :).
It's probably a carryover from my early Unix days where the
r* services were major gaping holes in a boxes security. This
seems to get reinforced periodically with security advisories.
Being paranoid, I fail safe.
George
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