On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote:
>
> I'm new to Linux, how can I be sure there is no way for others to get in
> to my machine when I am in a PPP session?
>
>
> Daniel Robbins
> School of Medicine Computer Services
> University of New Mexico
>
> [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Hi Daniel,
I'm no expert, but I do know that you should make sure that you have this
in your /etc/host.deny
here is mine....
# /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system.
# See hosts_access(5) and /usr/doc/net/portmapper.txt
#
# Example: ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain
# ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain
#
# The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its
# address.
ALL:PARANOID
Hope that makes you feel a little better. Please note when I mentioned
that the warez punks were trying to get in, I meant just that, there is no
evidence that they were able to get in at all. It is just pure
coincidence that I was looking at the vt on F1 and noticed a failed
attempt from this *net address*. Then I looked in my /var/log/auth.log
and lo and behold they had been trying for a few days. Freaked me out at
first, (I went throught the whole disk directory with the tree command
lookin for something.) then I realized, hey these are all failed attempts.
This should be a sortof kudo to the Debian developers, because this is a
stock system (other than what I've mungeed up) and I feel much better
knowing that my system didn't have any holes (that you could drive a truck
though anyway) right out of the box... Thanks guys and gals!
(hmm not to open a kettle of fish, but how many female developers are
there??)
Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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