hi all > Scott Henson wrote:http > > >Can any one point me to the best books, how-to's, articles, scripts, etc. on > >hardening debian and making it really secure, but still easy to use? I was > >looking on the debian site and I saw a security how-to, but for some reason > >it would not let me access it. It said i didnt have permision to view it.
the debian security howto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ > A few good tips on this site: > > http://wwwcmc.pharm.uu.nl/gillies/debian/ i'd add -d1 ( turn on dma mode ) for disks ... do the tests before and after to see the (big) difference in performance hdparam -tT /dev/hda > A few more security tips: > http://tinyplanet.ca/pubs/debian/html/c206.html i couldnt get to it :-( > This is a good security site, I think some guy on this lists manages it. > http://www.linux-sec.net/ seems that coming thru level3, uunet, pacbell works fine... but when passing thru verio ( in san jose area) .. i cant reach linux-sec.net.. ( wierd problem ) ( i think there's some whacky filtering going on ??? ( at least level3 security/tech support folks can get thru ( so it probably not them > This is the link that I have for the Securing Debian HOW-TO, it appears > to be down too > > http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO/Securing-Debian-HOWTO.htm you need to change from *.htm to *.html > You can also download an exaple Debian IPtables script from: > > http://www.debiandiary.f2s.com/files/iptables.sh c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net
