Heather Wagamon <hwagamon at andersonww.com> wrote: > > I've been thinking that I want to set up a personal Linux web/email > server at home so I can learn linux easier and become more comfortable > with it. I was wondering... what's the best linux/unix to use? I was > thinking "Red Hat" since that's what we use here. Well, I'll just suggest that you make sure you're running a new distribution. The Honeynet Project discovered that, on average, it takes about 72 hours for a default-install RedHat 6.2 box to get broken into. Of course, I understand that stock Win98 with file sharing enabled is pretty much just as bad.. If this doesn't show the great importance security (and not leaving everything turned on after an initial install), I don't know what does.. http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0106.html -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ #define END.ARMS.CONTROL / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ /* Silo overflow */ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010621/fc07836e/attachment.pgp