On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:27:24 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well thank you for that. I had planned on setting up port knocking > for ssh and cups but I guess I'm just as well off leaving them > listening on 22 and 631?
Fail2Ban, though a little intensive, seems to be a decent method for avoiding unwanted SSH traffic while accepting trusted traffic. I have seen one deployment where it seems passably inconspicuous, at least. Alternately, if you run SSH on an unusual port, you're unlikely to see much Bot traffic. I would recommend this, if you're concerned, above port knocking myself -- relying on a complicated "pre-authentication" method rather than / in addition to a remote admin tool like SSH seems to be asking for problems. > As for printing from lpr to cups across the internet, I should be > encrypting that data shouldn't I? Nothing too sensitive but it sounds > like a good thing to do. It looks like cups can use ssl but I don't > see any mention of it in man lpr. SSH Tunneling and VPN come to mind too, but I must ask - what good is printing a physical document across the net, unless the printer is still only a little way away, and if so, what is it doing behind a public network? I am curious about this deployment. > - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
