[H-GEN] Installing a website!

[Sandra Mansell]

Harry Phillips wrote:

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>On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:18 +1000, Ted Percival wrote:
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>>I think it's a good idea to have a shot at setting up your own box.
>>It's the best way to learn, and the best way to be come proficient.
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>Yeah after your box is 0wn3d by leet hackers a couple of times you will
>learn real quick.
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5 years my box was on the net with ssh open to root and a dictionary 
password (without my knowledge obviously) and in that time it got pwned 
ONCE. It was also running a website for oh, about 3 years of that. I 
assume by 'leet hackers' you mean 'script kiddies'. They're not terribly 
smart and tend to just use software to do it for them. If his box isn't 
running anything but a webserver and he either locks down ssh to local 
IPs or completely denies it and uses local access to do stuff, he'll be 
a lot better off. He's already got it behind a NAT box.

Sandra.

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