Mike Hicks wrote: > > 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 ] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature I know with my old box, SuSE, I had mapped Apache to the outside IP and never had a problem. But I mapped FTP and Telnet outside for an IP Masquerading project a friend of mine was working on for the U and had the Ramen worm trying to get in after about two hours!! Since then I have gone back to Slackware, mostly to get more under-the-hood experience ( YAST was good and bad because it DIFY). If you are just doing it as a learning project, I wouldn't even worry about routing it to the outside world. Create a bunch of phony accounts on your home network and tear into it.