RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-07 Thread Ian P. Thomas
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 18:21, Christopher Lyon wrote: > Your assumption was correct but both of you have great feed back. I am > interested more in the aspects of securing linux (RH8.0) in a corporate > environment where there is mixture of friendlys and hostels. > > Good feedback. Looks like ther

RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread shawn
For what it's worth, I picked up Building Secure Servers with Linux (BAUER --O'Reilly press). It suggested among other things http://www.bastille-linux.org/ which offers some perl scripts... Bastille Linux has been designed to educate the installing administrator about the secur

RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Christopher Lyon wrote: > Your assumption was correct but both of you have great feed back. I am > interested more in the aspects of securing linux (RH8.0) in a corporate > environment where there is mixture of friendlys and hostels. > > Good feedback. Looks like there is som

RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Christopher Lyon
Message- From: Daily, Shane, CTR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: RH8.0 and making it secure Iptables <<< >>> Cable/DSL router Yes, if you're in a hurry and don't care to learn much ab

Re: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Cliff Wells
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:59, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:40:37PM -0700, Daily, Shane, CTR wrote: > > So many things to consider I'd start with an iptables overview if you're > > box is on the internet. A good Linux Security book is worth having too. > > Personally, I wouldn't

RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Daily, Shane, CTR
harden the linux box itself. Building a firewall is a good way to do both. Shane -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RH8.0 and making it secure On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:40:37PM -0700, Daily,

Re: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:40:37PM -0700, Daily, Shane, CTR wrote: > So many things to consider I'd start with an iptables overview if you're > box is on the internet. A good Linux Security book is worth having too. Personally, I wouldn't start with iptables. If you have either cable or DSL (

RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Daily, Shane, CTR
So many things to consider I'd start with an iptables overview if you're box is on the internet. A good Linux Security book is worth having too. Shane -Original Message- From: Christopher Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:14:57PM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote: > Does anybody have any documents or links on making RH8.0 secure, ie > locking it down? The Linux Administrator Security Guide: http://seifried.org/lasg/ It's starting to get old, but many of the concepts will be with us for many

RE: RH8.0 and making it secure

2003-01-06 Thread Ferguson, Michael
openna.com - Securing and Optimizing Linux - The Hacking Solution -Original Message- From: Christopher Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RH8.0 and making it secure Does anybody have any documents or links on making RH8.