Re: Securing of systems....

[roman <emperor.1 () NETZERO NET>]

Snehal,

      To start out, not knowing which Linux platform you are going to be using
rather limits the information we can give you. However, bearing that in
mind...
      Looking over the other posts, they all recommended some excellant
reading
to you. I would also recommend the following...
      These are more specific to RedHat, however many of the tools/methods
they
use would be applicable to any linux.

1. Securing and Optimizing RedHat Linux by Gerhard Mourani, available at
www.openna.com
2. Ckeck out the Bastille Project at http://www.bastille-linux.org
3. Suscribe to the linux-focus list @securityfocus.com, I've found it to be a
another great resource.

Best regards,

roman

-----Original Message-----
From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of
Snehal Dasari
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 5:39 AM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: Securing of systems....


Hi,

I'm not exactly sure if this is the right group to post to, so my apologies
if it is.

I was recently contacted by a ISP to build up some linux servers to act as
their game servers.  And that's sort of my problem.

Basically, these are going to be high profile machines (as far as gaming
machines go) and I'd like to secure them as best as possible.  I play with
linux on a personal scale, but have never deployed linux in a commercial
environment.

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.

These servers will be running multiple game servers from each unit.

Regards,
Snehal Dasari


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