[Nottingham] Security on Linux

[Ron Wilton]

Hi Steve

Can you tell me a little more about 'ssh' and 'casual poking on port 22', please?

--- On Thu, 26/6/08, Steve Caddy <steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com> wrote:
From: Steve Caddy <steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Security on Linux
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Date: Thursday, 26 June, 2008, 8:07 AM

Martin wrote:

> No virus scanners needed. No firewall needed even unless you're going
to
> start playing with setting up open services.

About the only config change I've made to my Ubuntu install, is to change
the 
port that ssh appears on, as it deters casual poking on port 22.

Steve

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Steven M Caddy, MEng ------------------------------------------------------
"Hardware - the part of the computer you kick when the software
fails"
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