From: "John T. Williams" <jtwilliams@vt.edu>
To: William Stanard <wstanard@palmertrinity.org>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: security training suggestions
Date: 24 Feb 2004 15:07:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077653258.3797.6.camel@Marx.fesnel.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc.004c4e0000512903004c4e0000512903.512ab7@palmertrinity.org>
O'Reilly publishes a small book called "Essential System Administraion"
for 14.95. This book is about 130 pages long and not too technical. It
explains a lot about security and other admistrative tasks in linux and
unix. I would highly recomend this book to you as it contains pretty
much everything you will probably want to know. For the most part the
trick to security on a linux box is to have a strong root password,
change it fequently, never log in as root unless you need to do
something only the root user can do, and never leave a root terminal
open when you cannot see the computer.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 14:54, William Stanard wrote:
> We are about to add our Linux box to our school's intranet (a 10.x.x.x
> network); our network manager is afraid that, by adding a Linux box, we
> will be opening ourselves up to mischief from our (my) students. Does
> anyone know of any security training offerings in the southeastern US that
> I and my network manager could attend to bring us up to speed on security
> issues surrounding Linux.
>
> I am running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) and plan to use Apache's httpd to
> serve pages for the teachers and students within the school's intranet. I
> will be teaching Linux to about ten students next fall.
>
> Bill Stanard
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 19:54 security training suggestions William Stanard
2004-02-24 20:07 ` John T. Williams [this message]
2004-02-24 21:15 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-02-24 22:23 ` John Kelly
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