| maxw | brb for a sec |
| evil_steve | default permissions are 700 |
| maxw | back let me try changing it I think that might be it |
| GD77 | evil_steve JUST took my baby steps with sed though most of the poeple saying awk sed combination is excellent |
| maxw | awk? sed? |
| GD77 | yup |
| maxw | steve think 744 is good |
| GD77 | sed steam editor stream* |
| maxw | ah what is awk? stream editor for what |
| Meier | man awk will tel you |
| maxw | what is ur goal mail server or something? internet radio anyways |
| GD77 | another editor to with broader capacities linux/unix |
| maxw | ah steve even with home directory permissions set to 744 I get nothin still forbidden |
| evil_steve | sed and awk are tools taht allow you to made large scale changes to a file without editing it |
| ChrisGo | could ask the host i guess iptables is firewall so if there is an exploit most likely your safe either way for example i like to lock my firewall so somethign like mysql server is safer since its only accessed by localhost heres nice simple example just remember to allow SSH :) http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/iptables_firewall.html |
| stex | ChrisGo: right. so installing APF and BFD should be enough right? |
| ChrisGo | sorry no clue what those are - coming from a windows world i feel you on updates + firewall is all I have to offer bro |
| stex | ChrisGo: thanks man. Is the script that you send me general enough and will it work with centos? |
| evil_steve | stex: the default rules with Centos are suitable for pretty much most servers, you just have to poke holes in it, and that's a trivial matter if you can read a file :) |
| hax_ | brb |
| stex | evil_steve: thanks. is it a good idea to access the server through VNC? |
| evil_steve | with a very strong password and non-standard ports, yes |
| stex | evil_steve: and connected through putty I guess |
| evil_steve | um..how do you connect to VNC via putty? |
| stex | my host gave me 8 letters long passwords by default, does centos allow me to define kick ass password of 15 characters? evil_steve: http://www.go2linux.org/node/15 |