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JanErik
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 Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:48 pm Post subject: Standard Gentoo installation - how safe am I? |
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I have installed everything "by the book", no extra security that I know of.
How about firewall software? Is that already installed?
Are there any "interesting" holes I should close? |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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A default Gentoo installation has no network daemons running, so you should be very secure.
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eryvile
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Standard Gentoo installation - how safe am I? |
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| Finnish wrote: | I have installed everything "by the book", no extra security that I know of.
How about firewall software? Is that already installed?
Are there any "interesting" holes I should close? |
I just had xnmap running against my laptop (it's a workstation with KDE running). The only thing that was discovered (i.e. open port with listener) was the X-server. I would say that's pretty secure  |
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mksoft
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For X server you can modify /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add -nolisten tcp. This will affect when X is started with {x,k,g}dm.
If you use startx, you can modify /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and add -nolisten tcp to serverargs.
As for firewalls and additional security measures, take a look at Gentoo Linux Security Guide.
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