Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-08-07 Thread James McKenzie
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 08:34:04 mike lan wrote: > >> what about turning off ipv6 ? >> > > If you don't need it, feel free to turn it off. I typically do. > > >> installing rkhunter ? >> > > If you wish. I typically don't. :-) > It is very interesting

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 08:34:04 mike lan wrote: > what about turning off ipv6 ? If you don't need it, feel free to turn it off. I typically do. > installing rkhunter ? If you wish. I typically don't. :-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-28 Thread mike lan
> > If you > > (a) use default F12 installation options (firewall and SELinux turned on), > (b) don't give away your user and root passwords to anyone (and use strong > password choices), > (c) don't do any ignorant changes to the system (ie. understand what you > are > about to do *before* you act

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 20:22:59 mike lan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: > > > the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , > > > > > > this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12 pc ? >

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/27/2010 12:22 PM, mike lan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: >>> the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , >>> this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12 pc ? >> >> Exactly what ki

securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread JB
mike lan gmail.com> writes: > ... > > the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , > ... > I mean "looking at my dekstop" on the other room, or installin some rootkits  to gain access to the pc on my behalf. > Mike, we are all concerned about privacy, hackers, etc. But if you are in a co

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread mike lan
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: > > the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , > > this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12 pc ? > > Exactly what kind of security are you interested in? Fedora is

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 18:49:13 mike lan wrote: > the fact is I don't like being spied on my desktop , > this means there is no fast way to secure a fedora 12 pc ? Exactly what kind of security are you interested in? Fedora is quite secure with its default installation, if you didn't turn of

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread mike lan
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: > > > I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I > want > > to keep safe from hacking > > ( specially from network admin. !!) > > Is a defaul

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread James Mckenzie
Steve Searle wrote: >Sent: Jul 27, 2010 1:38 PM >To: Community support for Fedora users >Subject: Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan > >Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: > >> I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local ar

Re: securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:32pm on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (UK time), mike lan scrawled: > I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I want > to keep safe from hacking > ( specially from network admin. !!) > Is a default fedora 12 install secure enough ? > or do i still take some measu

securing a fedora 12 pc on a lan

2010-07-27 Thread mike lan
Hello I've installed a Fedora 12 kde live cd on a local area network, that I want to keep safe from hacking ( specially from network admin. !!) Is a default fedora 12 install secure enough ? or do i still take some measures to secure the pc ? I need also to monitor scans or probes to the pc pl