Re: [pmfirewall] PmFirewall should be continued

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From: Alan Murrell (alanm@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 13:15:33 PST

Franki wrote:

> you can still have a neat usable gui in console anyway,,
>
> couple of examples being linuxconf.. (looks ok in a console and all the same
> functionality.)
> and what about ntsysv? that looks pretty good and easy and it aint using X
> either.

<shrug> I guess I'm from the "minimalist" school of securing a server. When I
set up a server, I do an absolute minimal install from the CD, and then install
whatever services will be running on that server from tarballs (sendmail,
apache, whatever).

I usually uninstall linuxconf and ntsysv, and related files, since they are
very unecssary.

I'm not saying this is more correct than leaving things on; just different
approaches to security. I actually have a checklist I go by (install this,
uninstall this and that, etc.) Just goes that extra bit in battening down
those hatches :-) 

--
Alan Murrell <alanm@vcn.bc.ca>

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