Securing your LINUX Box:

Watson, Keith kwatson at grtk.com
Fri Dec 1 10:15:50 EST 2000


Steve,

The first thing I did on this list failed. It had me do a "grep -v "^#"
/etc/inetd.conf" 

It seems that there is no /etc/inetd.conf file. 

Any suggestions?

Keith

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Stephen Dawes [mailto:sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca] 
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 28, 2000 10:23 AM
> To:	Speakup at Braille. Uwo. Ca
> Cc:	showell at lrxms.lrxms.net
> Subject:	Securing your LINUX Box:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> With the resent talk on the reflector about firewalls, and the possible
> intrusion of one of our friends, I am letting you know of a Web Site that
> has been recently been drawn to my attention.
> 
> http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/
> 
> http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html
> 
> The first URL is the home page of Lance Spitz, and as its name suggests,
> the second URL deals with protecting your LINUX box. 
> 
> Lance has done a lot of work in putting his site to gather, and I have
> liked what I saw there.  There are a number of papers on the security
> issues of LINUX.  What I liked about the site as well, is that Lance is
> not hiding how he reached his conclusions.
> 
> Enjoy, I know that I am going to be doing a lot of reading at this site.
> 
> 
> Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
> Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
> PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
> E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 
> 
> 
> 





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