Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3675 mails)

[James Bliss <bliss@xxxxxxxxx>]

Look into SuSEfirewall, or better yet, SuSEFirewall2 (You can get the most recent version 
from www.suse.com/~marc/SuSE.html).  Also, I would suggest reading up on squid proxy 
server.  This may be overkill in your situation though, but the more security the better.

The SuSEFirewall scripts are self documenting and very useful.  As you work through this 
feel free to post any detailed questions here, many of us have used these tools before.

Also, hardensuse script helps in locking down services, although I do not run it anymore, I 
just configure the scripts and services manually.  This gives me much more control.

Jim

01/01/02 01:21:48 PM, Albert Wagner <alwagner@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Ok.  After two years using Kppp, I finally have digital cable.  I don't know 
>how I got it working.  My ISP only supplies instructions for Windows.  But 
>for the moment, after some random, uninformed twiddling, I am up.  Now, how 
>do I cover by butt?  I feel unbelievably vulnerable.  What services should I 
>not allow?  What should I do about security?  I am on SuSE 7.1, KDE 2.2.1.  
>Is the personal firewall useful?  Help!
>
>Albert Wagner
>
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