axel_2078 Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Ok, how secure is Mandrake 10.0 straight out of the box? I am behind a home router, but don't have any kind of software firewall. Do I need one? Is it a good idea, or completely unnecessary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 It's pretty secure. Mandrakes makes sure there are no unneeded services/servers running so you don't have to care about that. You are not using IE/Outlook, so that's pretty secure. There are usually security updates pretty quick after a problem surfaces, so that's good. But of course you will never be 100% secure so make sure you regularly back up of vital data. Oh and don't do anything stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Configure the firewall in mcc and shorewall will be installed and configured. Very easy, and all that is needed for basic setups. A couple of years ago (ML-8.2?) someone did a default, no firewall, install of mandrake and announced to the world to hack it. It took 2.5 weeks and I think over 20,000 attempts to get in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axel_2078 Posted August 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Configure the firewall in mcc and shorewall will be installed and configured. Very easy, and all that is needed for basic setups. I remember during the configuration of the firewall that you couldn't turn it on unless some things like ftp, http, dns, etc servers were checked. What I'm not sure about is, is it asking if you will be connecting to those types of servers, or acting as one of those types of servers? I didn't check any of them and thus my firewall is not activated because I didn't understand it. Also, is the firewall easy to configure? I have two other computers on my network and I need to share files between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 then it is activated. You do not have to check anything. Leave all unchecked. [root@localhost root]# chkconfig --list | grep shorewall shorewall 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@localhost root]# chkconfig --list | grep iptables iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@localhost root]# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axel_2078 Posted August 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 What do the 0-6 numbers represent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 What do the 0-6 numbers represent? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> runlevels http://www.help2go.com/article164.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightcrank Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 by default the netbios port is open i think its port 139, apparently that 1 of the worst ports to have open. so how can mandrake be that secure out of the box if that port is open Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 (edited) It's true that it would better be closed, but by default it doesn't install samba I think. I don't know an other service that runs on the port, but there can be ofcourse ... I think by default there is nothing running on the port, so there is nothing to exploit except the firewall if you have it on ... (which is good to have on) Edited September 7, 2004 by Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandriva-user Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 It's true that it would better be closed, but by default it doesn't install samba I think. I don't know an other service that runs on the port, but there can be ofcourse ... I think by default there is nothing running on the port, so there is nothing to exploit except the firewall if you have it on ... (which is good to have on) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What stands for port 139 and port 1. Port 1 stands for firewall? port 139 stands for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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