Just install xinted and use the "only_from" option. H
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 19:39 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath wrote: > haha. not really! if u have really managed an online server u'd have > seen tons of attacks and login attempts on your default ports by bots > looking around for weaker systems. > > This is hence especially helpful, I myself have seen these bot attacks > reduce to almost zero once i had changed the port numbers of various > services on my system. Now, you are talking about someone sitting and > concentrating on your machine, thats a diff story all together. isn't > it? you are smart, you should have known all this. > > Abdul > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 07-05-2008, à 17:34:08 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a écrit : > > > just my two pence. > > and my two centimes. > > > * Change the ports of most ports like ssh, ftp, smtp, > imap etc. from the > > default ones to some other ones. > > > >From my poor understanding of security related issues, I > guess this is > totally useless since any (good) port scanner will defeat this > without > any problem. Remember, security by obscurity is a bad idea. > > -- > Steve > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Abdul Bijur V -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
