Hardware Been Shipped

Got a notification that the hardware was shipped yesterday, so with luck, everything will be showing up this weekend and allow me to get rolling with the ESXi build.

With that said, I continued on yesterday with my FreeBSD prototype. I managed to get SSH completed and locked down. A great site that I used is here:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap15sec122.html

This really let me finish up the locking down of SSH and it seems to be working great.

So as a wrap up also, SSH comes installed by default with FreeBSD 7.2 and all I needed to do was enable it. However, no customizations are done at this point, which is what I was working on. By using the link above you should be able to get everything completed without much of a problem.

The other area I worked on is sand boxing (or jailing) Bind. Thankfully Bind is also sand boxed by default on FreeBSD 7.2. Back in the 4.x days I had to go through a bunch of steps to accomplish this. The only thing I needed to do was enable it in the rc.conf with the following command:

named_enable=”YES”

This now has Bind running in cached mode. So the next thing I’ll start working on creating a home domain using Bind.