[sclug] Securing a server

[Keith Edmunds]

Tom Chance wrote:
> Thanks for all those tips, I'm reading about & considering them now.
> It's nice 
> to be able to simply deny connections from a spammer who's been pissing us 
> off for the past couple of weeks :D

"Shorewall" is an excellent tool for configuring iptables and makes it 
trivial to add extra rules as you need them. You don't need to 
understand the iptables syntax, and the "QuickStart" guides on the 
website are a good handholding start.

-- 
Keith Edmunds

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