[nycbug-talk] add ons ideas from last nights meeting/presentation

[steve]

there are a few things that all should be aware of, that were not 
mentioned last night at all

for starters checksum your /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/shadow 
/usr/bin/su and other important files on a daily basis, you might not 
notice any changes in these files.

also for any networking equipment, including printers, turn off or 
change the snmp public and private stings, i can and have reconfigured 
networks and printers (HP is notorious for this) that were left with 
private and the private SNMP community name

on a side note, it is possible to download your phone book if you have a 
bluetooth enabled phone. its been done.

for those of you that have bsd running at home and are not using it as a 
mail server, turn off sendmail, postfix or whatever, and start it every 
x minutes to flush the queue via cron, there is no reason to keep it 
running all the time if you are not receiving mail on this box, 
something like this in your cron tab should work */5 * * * * 
/usr/libexec/postfix -q

also omnicom/omnigroup (the second largest advertising firm in the 
world) uses freebsd almost exclusively now.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: steve.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 774 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20050106/4ff0c863/attachment.vcf