Publisher's Synopsis
Lock down your Linux system Now! Up-to-the-minute security techniques for your entire Linux environment, this book offers in-depth coverage of Bastille, the breakthrough Linux lockdown tool! It presents intrusion detection with network sniffers and port scanners and complete coverage of the OpenSSH encryption suite. It also features firewalls, email, Web services, filesystems, applications, and more. Completely updated for RedHat 7.2, now there's an up-to-the-minute, hands-on guide to using open source tools to protect any Linux system! Completely updated for the newest tools and distributions, "Linux System Security, Second Edition" covers virtually every facet of Linux security, from firewalls and intrusion detection to authentication and secure Web services. You'll master over a dozen crucial open source security tools, including sudo, portmap, xinetd, tiger, tripwire, ipchains, pam, crack, and more. Along the way, three long-time Linux sysadmins will show you the "gotchas," rules of thumb, and undocumented tricks it would take you years to learn on your own!;This book includes: preparing Linux systems for a production environment; using Bastille to lock down Linux systems without unnecessarily compromising their functionality; combating Trojan horses, backdoors, password cracking, buffer overflows, spoofing, DoS, and more; OpenSSH: eliminating eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks; detecting intrusions with network sniffers and port scanners; firewalls, email, Web services, filesystems, applications, and much more; and protecting mixed Linux/UNIX(r) environments. It includes a concise introduction to security policies. Want the benefits of Linux without the security risks? Get "Linux System Security, Second Edition"! This is from "Prentice Hall" Series on Computer Networking and Distributed Systems, and Radia Perlman is the Series Advisor.
