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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
