On Monday June 09 2003 12:09 am, Derek Fountain wrote: [snip]
If you want to test and play, install apache on one of your internal machines, away from untrusted users. That's simple - it'll work out of the box. You should have it running inside 5 minutes. Increase your knowledge from there by all means. Just don't open the thing to the outside until you have read up on the security implications, and you've understood how they apply to you. Not anyone else, or an example server, *you*!
Maybe I can put this into a perspective that he'll understand better. I assume he's in the USA. FACT.....NO exaggeration!! If your 'puter is cracked and it's used by foreign nationals, (like Chinese since that's common), to attack any Gov't server(s) or banks, etc., the FBI WILL be at your door. You WILL loose your 'puter, and IF you get it back, it WON'T be in the condition it left.....PERIOD!! So go ahead and not listen to the advice you've been given here. Fred -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!