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Re: Network admin tools
From: White Vampire <whitevampire () mindless com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 02:25:32 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:29:14PM -0300, Blade Runner(blade () seven com br) wrote:
Can anyone tell me some free system-network administration tools? Actually I am using nagios www.nagios.org and snort.
A well-run server largely relies upon the administrator rather than third party tools, but that is my opinion. Nevertheless, a variety of tools can harden a server and make life easier. I setup log processing and mailing, regularly run system scripts for maintainence and notification via mail of notable changes over a timeperiod, and a variety of other automation upon my own design. It's quite simplr really, I believe there are some script out there provided for the public that do similar tasks. nmap serves handy, simply to verify the ports open. It is not necessarily a bad idea to run "John" [http://john.openwall.com/] regularly to test for bad passwords. A lot of internal tools exist within operating systems that people do not realize. Linux provides fstab entries to limit filesystem abilities; chattr to specify attributes to a file to prevent changes, etc; you can have internal password expiry; quotas.. the tools are numerous. I like ViperDB vs. Tripwire, but some people may prefer Tripwire. They are filesystem integrity intrusion detection systems. All these things are well-documented. Manpages and Google should suffice for comprehensive reference. I could go on forever, I am always learning something new or some way to make my servers better in some way. Regards, - -- \ | \ / White Vampire\Rem | http://gammaforce.org/ \|\| \/ whitevampire () mindless com | http://gammagear.com/ "Silly hacker, root is for administrators." | http://webfringe.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9w33s3+rxmnEDyl8RAoUEAKDf3w0E/z4XTwIp3D/fvDLJVTYLewCgxuHZ BTLc1DiDjUpcOJGL2uoTKP4= =Uf8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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