Doug Sutherland writes: > One thing that linux distros have traditionally had backwards > is turning everything on by default, including all kinds of > port access. That used to be true for all *nix systems. It has noticably changed over the past few years. I believe the only port on by default in today's Fedora install is port 22. For attacks on port 22 there is a lovely monitoring application called denyhosts that will shortly curtail scripted attacks on 22. Janina