5 easy ways to protect your system

[cousinlucky]

This article was in Linux Magazine!

Five Easy Ways to Secure Your Linux System | Linux Magazine

[hazel]

I think most of those are only relevant to people who run office networks. For instance, few home users run a ssh server. Locking down passwords sounds reasonable though.

[cousinlucky]

Hazel, my computer illiteracy shows itself again, Thanks!!

[Jonathan183]

Thanks for the link cousinlucky

[Lazydog]

I think most of those are only relevant to people who run office networks. For instance, few home users run a ssh server. Locking down passwords sounds reasonable though.

You might be surprised at how many do run an SSH server so they can access their home computers/networks from anywhere.

cousinlucky: Nice article, thnx for sharing.

[hazel]

You might be surprised at how many do run an SSH server so they can access their home computers/networks from anywhere.

You're right. It never occurred to me that people would want to do that, probably because I can't imagine myself wanting to do it. I'd be far too frightened of it acting as a trojan horse. My mental picture of remote logins is someone working from home on their employer's computer.

[cousinlucky]

Linux Magazine is Way over my head. I do learn some things from it now and then but I see a lot of articles there that might interest experienced LF members.

[Dapper Dan]

I'm forever moving files around inside my home network and fiddling with one machine from the command line while at another so for me ssh is indispensable. I also have two Ubuntu machines in my network. When dealing with Ubuntu specific questions posted here, I'll often ssh from CRUX into one of those machines to research the answer. Just did that last night while explaining about blacklisting modules. Thanks for the link cousinlucky!

[jayd512]

Indeed!
Great find there! Thanks, Lucky!

[Lazydog]

You're right. It never occurred to me that people would want to do that, probably because I can't imagine myself wanting to do it. I'd be far too frightened of it acting as a trojan horse. My mental picture of remote logins is someone working from home on their employer's computer.

What are you afraid of? Someone breaking in? I don't use passwords to log in, I use keys. Without that you cannot get in. I find keys to be more secure as they are harder to crack unlike most passwords in use today. And if you are worried that someone might steal your key then you could password protect it also using a strong password.