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Re: securing server



Le 07-05-2008, à 17:34:08 +0800, Abdul Bijur Vallarkodath (abdulbijur@gmail.com) 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


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