Re: [TCLUG:12831] Issues raised today

[Robert Leduc <robertl@ccbr.umn.edu>]

I agree.  This might be off the topic, so forgive me.  I am in
the class of novice user; I am running Linux on my box at home
because I despise Windows.  The box is used only by myself,
however, I would like to use the Linux system to connect via PPP
to the U of M and would wonder about security issues I might
face.

This is obviously much easier than those of you who have to run
servers for others, etc.

Rob Leduc



On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John R. Sheets wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2000, Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net> wrote:
> > Hm, I think that with Tim's experience today, it would be a great idea to
> > have a security meeting to go over best practices, and the basics of
> > security in the UNIX world, as well as info on the distros that people all
> > know and love, RH, Deb, and Slack.  I know this is a HUGE subject, but I
> > think the focus could be something like workstations and servers,
> > commonalities, and specifics for both, and going into well known programs
> > such as Apache, sendmail, inetd, ssh, etc, and to talk about the various
> > security resources "out there".  I would be willing to put together a
> > presentation, or coordinate presentations by a few people for the February
> > or (preferably) March meeting.  What does everyone think about that?
> 
> Sounds terrific!  Might even be enough to spur me into going to a
> meeting.  (c:  I was just thinking about posting a question asking
> about the current crop of security testing tools.  One of these days,
> I'll be getting DSL, and I'd like to have a decent firewall set up.
> Does anyone have thoughts on what tools I should use to hammer on it, to
> make sure I haven't forgotten anything stupid?
> 
> John
> 
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