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 1FxvYt-0000Xa-1z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:48:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k650knZK012726; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 00:46:49 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k650cSPl032477 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 00:38:28 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y38so1093726nfb for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WRJeTKWaWUY2ibqOokWd43JaGSr4GZdD4RQ9oAjVAoqGKayoMOPYE3wdWC6z+IO8/SyxHj6ugSZcc12U6MURx9CWfHVmbNGy6a7e7ESAnoaFSizlva7kzPLuM8ii3Lfxy6lo/VcnmTUJZ6kNbj/FXDH9CNlvR6NXYBpefmSl9Vw= Received: by 10.48.233.18 with SMTP id f18mr3736715nfh; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.238.18 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10607041738w2ce28c5bq9d569ffc47d44848@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:38:28 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Protecting my server against an individual In-Reply-To: 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 References: <49bf44f10607041556w3db1b64et625c088ba8c56541@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 43690875-fabe-43c9-8232-b24b26e06e0b X-Archives-Hash: 37d40305a7031c94c72a043d8ca22dd6 > > 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? > > I assuming your server is a web host and it only is using port 80 (http) traffic. I do log in via ssh (port 22 I think) and it's also a mail server. How can I check which ports are open? Does shorewall handle that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list