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Hi, |
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In the last 3 weeks I have discovered a lot about Gentoo and its ease of |
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use made me try using my Gentoo Linux box as a web server. |
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After this first successful experience, I have configured Postfix and |
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Squirrelmail and even made some accounts for my friends. |
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Right now my #1 concern is related to the security of my computer: it |
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has a static IP address and it gets scanned a couple of hundred times |
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per day (and I'm not kidding!). Having a mail server at hand might be |
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just asking for trouble and I really don't want to spread spam without |
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knowing. |
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I have a really small network of 3 computers (two of them being laptops) |
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and the so-called server is also my personal computer which I use on a |
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daily basis. |
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I was wandering if I should switch to Hardened Gentoo on my server (and |
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I am already planning to switch the laptops from Debian to Gentoo) as I |
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know it will make things more secure, but also it might be quite an |
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overkill for such a small network. |
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Switching to Hardened Gentoo might mean that I will lose a rather big |
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amount of time to reconfigure everything on my computer, so I really |
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don't want to switch unless it's absolutely necessary. |
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I want to run (as a server) Apache, Postfix/Qmail, mailman (or ezmlm?), |
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Squirrelmail and SSH. |
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Thanks, |
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Andrei |
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