From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fxtyx-0000QV-6y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:07:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k64N4WIj027489; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:04:32 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k64Mu2Uw014297 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:56:02 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y38so1081060nfb for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:56:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=hlA73bevLv+NIUGRyM4Q6ipgkUOPnnJRsy0E+bHmmnWtfGz++AP3tfypmgKL87RT8dyTVmpZimg+IxW9LinS9JeYAbeMKogXqSCV9u/23eXmLpDHf/fdQWM0O342CUNTR0fQZjdcYx9JVm8A0bQOsDVXxd89xklmhZVri893vhI= Received: by 10.48.47.3 with SMTP id u3mr3690290nfu; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.238.18 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10607041556w3db1b64et625c088ba8c56541@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:56:02 -0700 From: Grant To: "Gentoo mailing list" Subject: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 559581a2-b57b-4980-b66d-c036b3ae11ba X-Archives-Hash: 1a1e60dece3040980ad98cc297cacf95 It has come to my attention that a particular person I know may be intent on attacking my server/website in any way possible. He doesn't know much about Linux but does know Windows. What kind of things should I lock down to protect my remote hosted server? I don't have time to get too crazy with security right now, but what kinds of simple tricks might this fellow learn by asking around on forums, etc? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list