20040916: LDM User Password (cont.)

>From: "Huffines, Gary" <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Northern Colorado
>Keywords: 200409162344.i8GNi0nJ001196 LDM Linux security

Hi Gary,

>You are right that I don't have a lot of experience with Linux.  I have
>spoken with our network folks and they feel that we are protected pretty
>well now.  We have a firewall for the computer through the Linux setup
>and then the firewall through the university on top of that.

OK, sounds good!

>The port
>388 has been opened for both tcp and udp access through the machine and
>the university firewall and the only way to access the computer at this
>time is via secure shell.

It is not necessary to open port 388 for UDP traffic, so you may want
to ask your network folks to close that down.  TCP for port 388 must
be open, however.

>If you can think of anything else we need to do, please let me know.

If your machine is secure, then the next step is creation of an 'ldm'
account, downloading of the LDM distribution, building the
distribution, installing the distribution, and finally configuring data
requests in ~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf and data decoding actions in
~ldm/etc/pqact.conf.

>Thanks again for your help!

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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