A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Server [Archive]

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mbrando

06-23-2005, 10:23 PM

I saw this in the cPanel forum and thought is was a wealth info for the someone jsut starting into VPS severs:

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=30159

Mike

KARanden

06-24-2005, 03:20 AM

Thanks ;)

Looks just right for someone just started using a VPS.

mbrando

06-24-2005, 08:24 AM

Do becarefull when adding the port to the section on APF. Some of the "code" provided contains typos like missing quotations marks and spaces in port numbers like 2 084 should have been 2084.

Mike

mikelbeck

06-24-2005, 08:52 AM

Also make sure that if you've already got apf installed, and you make the recommended changes to sshd, you open the port in apf BEFORE restarting sshd and logging out.

G'head, ask me how I know. ;-)

mbrando

06-26-2005, 11:22 PM

I founf a port missing on the inbound ports for APF. The port suggest for 'IG_TCP_CPORTS' does not have 443 so standard https SSL would be blocked.

Mike