From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:02:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h5ips6$2uv$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7CE325.6040006@gmail.com>
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.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-08 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-07 23:45 [gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time Dale
2009-08-08 0:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-08 1:09 ` Dale
2009-08-08 1:29 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-08 1:18 ` [gentoo-user] " David
2009-08-08 2:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-08-08 2:14 ` David
2009-08-08 2:29 ` Dale
2009-08-08 3:02 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-08-08 3:19 ` Dale
2009-08-08 3:49 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-08 3:56 ` Dale
2009-08-08 4:54 ` Grant Edwards
2009-08-09 9:29 ` Mick
2009-08-08 13:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Sullivan
2009-08-08 14:17 ` Dale
2009-08-08 14:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-10 1:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-08-10 3:03 ` Dale
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