[ale] little bit of security advice needed

[Cade Thacker]

I was wondering if somebody would be willing to nmap my box and then help
me decipher the answer you get back. I am ready to put my home linux box
on the internet with SSH only (don't worry, it is 3.4p1). But I am totally
freaked out. Here is my set up.

Linksys DSL/router with linux box behind that. Turned on port forwarding
on port 22 on linksys to forward to linux box. Running dyndns, box is
thacker.homelinux.org.

I am going to set up the sshd user account so that I can run with
UsePrivilegeSeparation turned on, so anything special to do when setting
up sshd account?

Thanks for you help, this is a big a scary step for me. I am mostly a
programmer and a sorry a** admin, but I am trying, so any advise is
welcome!

--cade

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