[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #449 - 9 msgs

[jenn at simegen.com]

Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:


> I am sure I am not the only person concerned on this list, or lurking, I 
> think you should share any other things you are aware of as a system 
> admin that allow someone into the system or give root access through 
> ways other than the normal channels as well as they ways to close these 
> things off.

I think that if you're that worried, hie yourself to a bookstore or
a good library and pick up an O'Reilly book. You'll get better 
information that way than you possibly could from an email from me.

I can't write a dissertation on *nix security in a five-minute 
email chat. If I'm going to spend more time than that discussing
*nix security, I'm going to make it a proper, thought-through article.

Your documentation was inadequate. You still haven't told us which
it was, but you implied a mandrake system and someone else has stated
that the mandrake docs aren't the world's best.

I strongly recommend either checking the Linux Documentation Project
at http://www.linuxdoc.org/ or - better - borrowing an O'Reilly Linux
system administration book from a library. Either will give you a
better and more comprehensive response than any braindump from me
possibly could.

Especially since I've not done much professional sysadmin or security
work in the last few years.



Jenn V.
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