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Unix Security: The Guide
Unix Security: The Guide is a condensed, comprehensive guide to all
general areas of security (or lack thereof) inherent in standard unix
systems. It is not required reading for people who read and understand
technical security bulletins, however, it is a good guide for system
administrators who wish to develop a strong grasp of security on their
unix systems. It provides practical and dependable security advice in
a condensed yet easy to read format. Even unix security experts can
use The Guide to review commonly forgotten topics.
Unix Security: The Guide addresses the following security issues in
plain English:
Passwords DES Shadowing
System design considerations Physical security
File permissions suid Trojans
Temp files Race conditions Symbolic links
umask Modems TCP wrappers
Packet sniffing Packet spoofing daemons
SSH httpd CGI scripts
.rhosts identd Flooding
DOS attacks Stack smashing Shell scripts
Backups Logs
Unix Security: The Guide is about 63K in size and is available in Rich Text
Format for free distribution:
http://www.spy.net/~jeeb/
-Rajib Mitra, author
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Received on Wed Apr 8 00:52:16 1998