Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (601 mails)

[Hubert Mantel <mantel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 18, Jason P. Stanford wrote:

>   I have taken a recent and deep interest in network security since installing
> SuSE 6.4 and OpenBSD on some spare machines in my lab. Of late I have noticed a
> lot of (possibly) suspicious activity, which probably shouldn't be too
> suspicious in a university setting. However, I am wondering just how robust and
> "impervious" the firewal package supplied with SuSE is? 
>   I only have ssh listening (on default port 22) through the firewall and a
> test web server on port 8080 (under my regular user uid and gid with no
> scripting or cgi by default). All other running daemons/servers are blocked
> (assumedly) by the firewall. 
>   Also, everything is deactivated in /etc/inetd.conf. /etc/hosts.deny is set to
> ALL: ALL and /etc/hosts.allow is set to sshd: ALL. That's it. Am I pretty safe,
> or should I still be paranoid? BTW, the machine is not acting as a router or
> NATS box. It is standalone only.

Given the firewall is setup properly, it sounds quite good. But even with
the best firewall, you should always be paranoid. Only the paranoid will
survive ;)

> -Jason
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    Hubert Mantel              Goodbye, dots...                   /\\
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