Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.
--- arthur_dent <arthur_dent@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> I am trying to begin to secure my P.C.. It's only a
> home computer but may
> hopefully later be linked to a second pc via 10/100
> nics.
>
> I was reading a faq on the net about securing a
> linux box and they recomend
> to not have certain services enabled unless
> absolutly necessary. One of these
> is "portmap". I notice this is enabled by default (I
> think) on Woody. Can I
> safely uninstall this service/program without
> affecting my p.c.?
> All I'm using it for is surfing the net, reading
> email and other "home" type
> things.
>
> Also they recomend disabling nfs...I have
> "nfs-common" and nfs-kernel-server"
> installed. Can I safely disable these too? I dont
> require them for apt-get
> updates etc?
> Thanks for any advise.
>
>
Yes and yes. You might want to install the harden
meta-packages ( is that the correct terminology? ).
See:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=harden&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all
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