Linux Administrator’s Security Guide

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Linux Administrator’s Security Guide. LASG - 0.1.3 …. The ‘guide’ is defined as the documentation and knowledge contained in this file. …

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Linux Administrator’s Security Guide
LASG - 0.1.3
By Kurt Seifried (seifried@seifried.org) copyright 1999, All rights reserved.
Available at: https://www.seifried.org/lasg/.
This document is free for most non commercial uses, the license follows the table of contents,
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Table of contents
License
Preface
Forward by the author
Contributing
What this guide is and isn’t
How to determine what to secure and how to secure it
Safe installation of Linux
Choosing your install media
It ain’t over ’til…
General concepts, server verses workstations, etc
Physical / Boot security
Physical access
The computer BIOS
LILO
The Linux kernel
Upgrading and compiling the kernel
Kernel versions
Administrative tools
Access
Telnet
SSH
LSH
REXEC
NSH
Slush
SSL Telnet
Fsh
secsh
Local
YaST
sudo
Super
Remote
Webmin
Linuxconf
COAS
PAM…