Yves LAMBERT wrote this... > Greetings all, > I just subscribed to IDS, and in the welcome message got the > following: >> When joining the list I ask you to briefly introduce yourself, > My name is Yves Lambert, and I'm one of the system administrators of > the SNCF (French Railways). We are a team of 3 people, and we have > to directly monitor over 400 workstations (from Sun IPx to Sun > Serevers 1000 on more than 130 differents places in France. > I am very interested to look for security incidents, patches, holes > .... I am a beginner in computer security but I think that list is > the best place for learning on this subject. hiya, i do hope yo have all the latest Sun patches on your machines? also how do you manage network information? do you use NIS? or NIS+? or do you use a homebrew system? i suggest you might also want to join the firewalls mailing list.. <firewalls-request@greatcircle.com> anyway you'll find there is plenty to learn, you best bet would probably be to go through some of the ids and firewalls archives. Matt -- #!/bin/sh echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D3F204445524F42snlbxq'|dc;exit Matthew Keenan Systems Programmer Information Technology Division University of Technology Sydney Australia It's nice to be in a position where people apologize because they assume there's humor in your work, based on past experience, but they're not sure where it is. -- Rob Pike