Re: Securing of systems....

[vamp <allgood () PHYSICS UCSC EDU>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Snehal Dasari wrote:

> The question I'm asking is this:
>
> Is there any document on the net that pertains to securing a linux box used
> for commercial purposes?  I've had a look and I cannot see a document of any
> use.  There are program specific (ipchains-HOWTO) but they give you the
> indepth of it all..I'm sort of looking for a document that covers it at a
> higher level.

Trinity OS
(http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html) is a great
reference for securing linux and the documents are at a fairly high
level.  But, pardon me if I say this, if you are going to be responsible
for these machines you should really know this stuff at a lower level (my
2 cents)!


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