Re: Securing of systems....

["Robert D." <xkill () DINGOBLUE NET AU>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Snehal Dasari wrote:

> 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

Well, you could try OpenBSD?

I've just setup a game server for the local lan with  Counter
Strike and Quake 3.  Counter Strike installed and runs without any
problems ( old versions of the Half Life servers didn't work under OpenBSD
).  Quake 3 v3.17 installation had some problems extracting the files, so
installed it under Linux and copied the files over. I haven't run Quake 2
lately, but it worked under OpenBSD 2.5.