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Installing A Secure FreeBSD Box

Posted by timothy on from the glue-the-case-shut dept.

ltwally writes "The guys over at LittleWhiteDog have a how-to on securing FreeBSD. Topics range from the basics to custom kernels, blowfish encryption, smtp, and custom firewall scripts. Definitely worth a look if you're running a FreeBSD box, or are interested in *nix security in general."

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  1. Security by rf0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well taking recent events remove ssh and sendmail. Access via telnet only. No one will ever see my password that way

    Rus

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  2. here's something exciting for the mods by xluserpetex · · Score: 3, Funny

    *generic BSD troll*

  3. Re:FreeBSD vs Linux performance by zcat_NZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about server stability?

    take a quick look at Netcraft's longest-uptimes page and see what OS is most prominent on that page.

    Here's a summary for you.

    BSD/OS and FreeBSD: 50
    GNU/Linux (all distros): 0
    All other *NIX's combined: 0
    Windows (98, XP, 2k and 2k3): 0
    Mac OS and OS/X: 0

    I'd have drawn a pie chart, but I think you know what a circle looks like already..

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