I'm linked to the internet trough a cable modem ( motorola cyber surf)
what I would like to know is: Can I protect myself against potetial intruders ?? What is my level of exposure. I have a single machine which is my workstation at the end of this install, I never work as root except when needed root has a complex passsword remote login is forbidden for root , "." is not in the root password that s all for now. the ISP is supposed to protect my comms between him and I. I m looking for any kind of advices. regards GH Portefait
Comment out any services you don't absolutely need in /etc/inetd.conf and create an /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny file and make them as restrictive as you can. You also might want to install tripwire and
What is tripwire ??
run it and save it's output to a removable media for future reference should you find you have been or might have been cracked.
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