Re: securing server
Just install xinted and use the "only_from" option.
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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 <dlist@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Steve
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