RE: How to lock down a RedHat box running Snort?

["Everist, Benjamin S. (NASWI)" <EveristB () naswi navy mil>]

> From the number of posts on this list about managing rules, I'd say there
is a great deal of interest in this, particularly if it were open sourced.

/benjamin

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gillingwater [mailto:paul () lanifex com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:10 PM
To: Walzer, Jeff
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How to lock down a RedHat box running Snort?


We use Bastille (http://www.bastille-linux.org/) which does a very nice job
of 
hardening the system before installing Snort.

BTW, we have developed a PHP interface for configuring Snort rules and 
dpeloying them.   Is there any interest in this if we open source it?
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Quoting "Walzer, Jeff" <jeffwalzer () redsquaresystems com>:

> Could someone please point me to any documentation that discusses how to
> lock down a RedHat box while running Snort? I want to strip every
> unnecessary service from RedHat before loading Snort.
>  
> Thanks,
> Jeff



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