What purpose would your Linux box serve? With the later versions, RH provides some decent security with the firewall and ssh being the only service turned on by default.
One thing I always add is some protection against people getting root locally by rebooting to single-user mode. If you use grub, set a grub password. I always add this to my /etc/inittab: ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin ..prompts for the root password when booting into single (not entirely foolproof, but it's still a deterrent). -Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Security question Hi, I'm a bit of a linux newbie. Out of the box, what should be the first things I do/learn/disable to secure my box? Is there anything I could run or look out for to indicate a hack of any kind? I guess this is asked a lot. If so, could anyone point me to any relevant resources? Thanks Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
