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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:25:55 +1000
From: Kristy Ferrari <k.ferrari at qut.edu.au>
Subject: [H-GEN] Security on a linux box
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Hi All,

         I know there are probably heaps of good sites out there, and if I 
just used google I'd find one, but what I'd actually like is a site that 
someone's used, and found very informative and helpful as to how to go 
about securing a Linux box. Reason I ask, is (as the sig says) I work on a 
helpdesk and we're looking towards supporting linux dialup to start with, 
and then maybe the very basics of linux applications (those more commonly 
found, that is, rather than the huge number that are available for 
everything). As the only person in my workplace that has any experience 
whatsoeva with unix let alone linux, it's fallen to me to install a duel 
boot (debian and Redhat, redhat because it's what QUT uses on their systems 
especially within FIT, and Debian due to this being my choice of distro and 
therefore the one I'm most comfortable with)  linux box.

         It's also fallen on my head to make sure the linux box is kept 
secure. So what I'd really like is a website or two that have instructions, 
on not necessarily how to use this or that tool to secure a system, but 
where I need to start (and hopefully finish ;) to secure the linux box 
properly. I know basics about how to secure a box using tcp wrappers and 
the like, but I'm guessing that my knowledge is not nearly enough to truly 
secure the box.

Thanks,

Kristy


Ms Kristy Ferrari
QUT ITS Staff Help Desk
PH: 3864 4000

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world
who can say absolutely nothing and mean it :)

-- James H Boren



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