Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:29:50 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" <jphdumas@yahoo.fr>, FreeBSD-Security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security tests Message-ID: <19991027172950.B17924@best.com> In-Reply-To: <19991026143635.25359.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com>; from Jean-Pierre H. Dumas on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:36:35PM %2B0200 References: <19991026143635.25359.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:36:35PM +0200, "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" <jphdumas@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > Then I installed Nessus 0.98.3 on a SuSE Linux 6.2 > (I could not build it, or run it on FreeBSD, I tried > to use the port and it failed in a way I don't > understand) and I did the scan of the server. > No big deal, the biggest problem > being that telnet is still the way to connect from > a Windows client. Sniffers are only a very remote > possibility in our context. (I have to check about > ssh, but it is not done yet.) Do it then. Hurry up. SSH is Jesus! :) Really though -- there are planty of good ssh clients for Windows out there. I'd myself recomment SecureCRT 2.4 from VanDyke. Best way to convert people to use ssh over telnet is to turn of inetd! Trust me. > Question: What can I do more to have a realistic > report about this server's security ? From outside run nmap (http://www.insecure.org/nmap) against your machine to see what is open. Close everything but ssh port and whatever else you need open (http, pop3, etc.) > Is there any other scanners or whatever that I can get > and run, either from within the server, or from > outside (I have a FreeBSD 3.2, Linux and Windows 95 > machine on the Ethernet) See above. You can run nmap from linux against freebsd. There are many commercial and freeware scanners out there for Windows. -- yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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