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<!-- Converted by db4-upgrade version 1.0 -->

<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="drakxid-miscellaneous"><info><title xml:id="BId-drakxid-miscellaneous-ti1">Deprecated - Security Level</title></info>
  

  <mediaobject condition="expert">
    <imageobject>
      <imagedata align="center" fileref="dx-miscellaneous.png" format="PNG" xml:id="BId-drakxid-miscellaneous-im1" revision="1" width="11.5cm"/>
    </imageobject>
  </mediaobject>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-miscellaneous-pa1" revision="2"><indexterm xml:id="BId-drakxid-miscellaneous-it1"><primary>security</primary>
   <secondary>level</secondary></indexterm>At this point, <application>DrakX</application>
   allows you to choose your machine's security level. As a rule of
   thumb, the security level should be set higher if the machine is to
   contain crucial data, or if it's to be directly exposed to the
   Internet. The trade-off is that a higher security level is
   generally obtained at the expense of ease of use.</para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-miscellaneous-pa2" revision="3">If you don't
  know what to choose, keep the default option. You'll be able to
  change it later with the <application>draksec</application> tool<phrase condition="not-in-QSPlus" xml:id="BIdNEW-drakxid-miscellaneous-ph1">
  (see <xref linkend="draksec"/>)</phrase>.</para>

  <para xml:id="BId-drakxid-miscellaneous-pa3" revision="1">Fill the
  <guilabel>Security Administrator</guilabel> field with the e-mail
  address of the person responsible for security. Security-related
  messages will be sent to that address.</para>
</section>