Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:46:01 -0400 From: "James Gill" <gill@topsecret.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: is having the ports secure? Message-ID: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADAEBDCJAA.gill@topsecret.net>
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Hi.. If i'm trying to make a secure installation (for example a firewall box) that will run only a finite set of services (NAT, firewalling, DNS, and not very much else), wouldn't it be better (more secure) to not install the whole ports collection but only the specific ports for the services I want? Aside from the (forty?) megabytes I would save on the already pretty small disk. Am I on the right track here? ===================================== James Gill * http://www.topsecret.net ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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