From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZcTV-0005oB-PV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:20:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B014E033F; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A706E033F for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so5494683gxk.10 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:20:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=m1uNcHW0QN3H5cdYVz60vrOcvuQBA0T12kpR55HmyrE=; b=vU9Dpia8ZtJRWH659XsRNzndEjjmLIAtiHTzaWDmmGlB7DlVdiI2Ctjo/yZKc1nd29 ZlceLlZFH5XWLNSpuPW5IdRVbR8JyozJv55w9anCe1agBlk57RBz+fte3ZMdhF7Uv0jo txNXbUUtH9fZ357LNMxBHUClueoIM52lSfHsM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oKFPTSrisYHIWFJNbUt17rC9PaBZG84BS/DtNAIji/fTbptfF6JjFts2bSfIa6gJmi ET3xxs/hMwZ4J8YuJk/4qyYGg4XEilYA0mPoqF/fWG4E4zkFl6Ra8WW6soUaQ0J/BbU3 3s0ux/E82maYq+Uvib2VoPF88aHvMkI4di+Iw= Received: by 10.90.100.11 with SMTP id x11mr1551906agb.16.1249701604187; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.188? (r169h188.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 11sm1679723aga.56.2009.08.07.20.20.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A7CEEDE.8090502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:19:58 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time. References: <4A7CBC95.9030008@gmail.com> <4A7CD253.8070800@pythontoo.com> <4A7CE325.6040006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d56f2da8-e852-4848-8a85-f7269803313d X-Archives-Hash: db475dfe4da94a0808448c5757fe5e2c Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: >> I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between >> my desktop and the modem. > > Your modem is probably a router anyway. > > >> I also plan to change my root password. Of course, my password >> isn't as bad as some I have seen. May need to disable any type of >> remote access too. > > root login is disabled by default. Even if someone knew the password, > login is impossible :) > > Furthermore, right now you're accessing the internet without any form > of protection anyway. If you're with dial-up, that means you're > connected directly to the internet. And don't forget this is Linux, > not Windows. Even without a firewall, remote break-in is highly > improbable, especially since you're not running any Apache or MySQL > servers on your machine (at least I assume you don't.) > > > This is all good to know. I would rather not have a router right now since I don't want to spend the money for one. If it is not needed, I'll pass on that. Good to know that remote logins are not allowed for root at least. I don't think I have done anything to allow user logins either. I don't have ssh running since I have only one rig running right now. I'm also not running Apache or anything on here. Just a desktop rig. It sounds like from what people are writing, all I have to do is enable dhcp for my ethernet, hook up the modem, go to the URL to access the modem/router then setup user name and password. This is sort of what I recall doing a long time ago. I guess not much has changed. I just synced and ran emerge -uvDNa world. I think I am going to wait. 142,529 kB over a 24K connection would take about 15 hours. I think DSL would be faster. Heck, may be faster to wait anyway. LOL Dale :-) :-)