[Tfug] OK guys enough

[Harry McGregor]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Brian Murphy wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:19:27AM -0700, Erich Flothmeier wrote:
> > Linux security is much improved since the dark days of
> > kernel 2.0.35. It's almost too good: for example I can't log onto
> > my new machine from an existing machine. I keep getting a "connection
> > refused" message. Telnet and rsh are out. What are some things besides
> > the Security_HOWTO that I can get. I don't want to compromize security
> > on this machine. I want to know how to authenticate to it in today's
> > Linux world.
>
> Sounds like you may have kernel firewalling on.

If ipchains does not work, try using "iptables -L", IP tables is the
default for most 2.4.x kernels (a "uname -a" will show you what kernel you
are running.

> ipchains -L  will show you.  Here is an example:

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			Harry

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