Howdy,

My first real decision is how to go about hardening my Slack 10 install, I've read how-to's by jack lai, dentonj, etc., and am determined to take some steps to "harden" my system, but I just don't enough about it yet. Any articles that virtually hold your hand and walk you through it are much appreciated. Does anyone know if SASKT is going to be updated for Slack 10?

After this, I will need to setup a firewall (plan on using GuardDog as a front end, remember I am coming out of the windows world, GUI's are good...)

Any thoughts, references, etc. are appreciated. I have been working my way through the how-to's, but frankly am feeling a bit lost right now....

All Slacked up, and no place to go!

this isnt much help, but i would recomend you go with FireStarter as a firewall GUI frontend.
it has a much better Interface (easyer to understand and naavigate) and it works almost identically to the windows XP firewall...

it basically gives you the default maximum security firewall, then asks questions like...
Would you like this machine to share its internet connection ?
Would you like allow this machine to run a web server ?
what other ports owuld you like to leave open ?

as for security.. unless you are running a web / ftp / ssh / cups server, then thats pretty much all you can do....

if you are running a webserver, also install Tripwire and snort.
Tripwire is an intrusion detection program.. if anyone gains access to your machine, and accesses any critcal files, the system lets you know that youve been hacked..

snort is a program which watches internet traffic to your servers, if it sees anything suspicouse, or sees some1 trying to hack the server, it can block their IP.

AND.. if the machine is going to be a web server only (not desktop) then look into SELinux.

Hello guys.

I would like to ask what if someone has not installed a Window manager, X server. How can build his own iptables script?

In other words is there any gui under windows which does the same job as FireStarter?

Nope....

where are no windows applications to write iptables scripts.. (if thats what you are asking)

read "man iptables" its really not as hard as it looks...

Thanks for the pointer Q'bow, I'll take them seriously. I really appreciate all of the help I've gotten here.

Head

your welcome.