Advice sought on makine web-server safe

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Nov 17 06:26:36 UTC 2005


No - Timothy is a pretty sharp guy and I didn't want to insult him with
an easy answer that failed to give him what he wanted.

Craig

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 15:56 +1000, Craig Preston wrote:
> I don't think it was a trick question, probably wanted help and didn't
> know about system-config-securitylevel, without the smart replies. Isn't
> that what a list like this exists for?? 
> 
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> To: tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Advice sought on makine web-server safe
> 
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 04:29 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I want to allow general access
> > to the web-server (apache) on my desktop, but not to any other 
> > services on this machine.
> > 
> > Could someone point me to a tutorial
> > (or other documentation) explaining
> > how to make this as safe as possible?
> ----
> is this a trick question? Did you want some complicated answer?
> 
> system-config-securitylevel
> 
> enable www (httpd)
> firewall enabled
> <OK>
> 
> Craig
> 
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