Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Last night while just looking to the /var/log/messages I have noticed that some one has fingered me and started an ftp action
the following were logged
home in.fingerd connect from bla bla home in.ftpd connect from bla bla
now when I saw these messages I diconnected from the internet since I wa on dial up. However I am planning to swcith to cable modem which will allow continous connection.
I want to know how can I control such actions. Is it enough I commment everything in the inetd.conf or are tehre additional things I can do.
Well, commenting most of /etc/inetd.conf out is a very good start. You'll also want to set up some firewalling rules using ipchains. For more info on doing this, see do the following: man ipchains less /usr/doc/howto/<yourlang>/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.gz less /usr/doc/howto/<yourlang>/Firewall-HOWTO.gz where <yourlang> is your language code - in my case en, possibly different for you.
Is there a possibility to have firewall enabled while on dial-up and dynamic IP is provided by the ISP
Yes, this is perfectly possible. Once you have your firewall rules sorted out, just write a script that will find out your current IP address and insert it in the appropriate places in your firewall rules, then call the script from ip-up. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/