Leigh, Perhaps, in the spirit of cooperation, you would like to start the ball rolling....? After all, everyone one the list is supposed to be working together. I think that reading the documentation for network-cracking tools like SATAN is worthwhile, and updating assorted utilities on a Linux box is an essential - known secure (or, at least, more secure) versions of the likes of sendmail. Also, avoid NIS like the plague, never export NFS filesystems globally, and try to export NFS read-only if possible, disable fingerd, or get a modified version if you NEED to use it. Disable or delete unused or dormant system or user accounts. Subscribe to the CERT mailing list, so you at least get notification of security holes (have a look at the security page on linux weekly news, too) and also Phrack magazine. There must be more than just that..... Putting stuff like that out might stir a few people, but that's well-known stuff. Any opinions? Alan. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>