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From: Michael Appeldorn (appeldorncodixx.de)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 03:42:47 CDT

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    Am 16.05.2002 10:22:29, schrieb Patrik Breitenmoser <pbreitenmoserfestland.ch>:

    >
    >Hi all,
    >
    >since a couple of day i own a server (suse Linux 7.3) that is conected to
    >the internet. bevor that i had only a lan server.
    >
    >I am worried about intruders makeing to mutch traffic -> high bills for me
    >;(
    >
    >I am running
    >portsenty scanlogd and freeveracity for sec.
    >
    >
    >Is there anything a security nubbie can do?
    >
    >

    Two really easy things

    run harden_suse (kills inetd, remove suid-bits and so on)

    you've to edit /etc/hosts.allow after running in order to
    reactivate ssh and other services access

    run SuSEfirewall2

    http://www.suse.com/~marc/SuSE.html

    Yours

    Michael Appeldorn 

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