John,
If you want to take a look at a good site for security, take a look at
http://www.linuxsecurity.com I am on the site at least a couple times a
day. There are links to good articles all over the place.
Rob Burtelow
Senior SMC Staff/Network Security Specialist
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Petraitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Worm Discussion
> All this talk about security issues is just fine, but it doesn't do much
for
> me in terms of knowing how to get my server right. I usually learn a lot
> from these emails. but this topic is pretty thick with opinion but thin on
> specifics.
> I've had a RedHat 6.2 server since the middle of last year, worked with
> ColdFusion for 2 or 3 years, and been in networking PCs for about 16
years.
> I'm no Linux expert, by far, so it sure would be nice to have some links,
> direction, instruction, in terms of security. Jesse once had an Allaire
> link to an article describing services to turn off for production servers,
> which I have used, but it would be nice if there was a regularly updated
> 'Best Practices' list for ColdFusion-Linux users to follow, which would
> detail the steps (step...by...step) to take from default installations of
> supported OS's (RedHat 6.2, etc) to where a reasonably secure server
should
> be. Wouldn't this make sense from a marketing standpoint for a company
> trying to sell a product on a specific platform?
>
> I truly appreciate the level of expertise shown by the people involved in
> these emails, but there are many levels of users out there. Without some
> nuts-n-bolts, how-to information, all I'm getting is another email I have
to
> delete. (...like this one :)
>
> Thanks.
> John Petraitis
>
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