Mike Liguit wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:06, Marvin Pascual wrote:By the way, anyone would like to discuss about Systems Administration and/or Network Administration?Hi,How about Securing and Optimizing the Linux Server? I could perhaps give talks on some of the following topics if you like. * General Security - The root account - Login time out for the root account - Shell Logging - Single-user login mode of Linux - Ctrl-Alt-Delete KB shutdown command - LILO and GRUB - Special Accounts - Finding Group and World Writable files and Directories - Unowned Files * Pluggable Authentication Modules - Password Length - Disabling Console program access - Disabling all console Access - Login access control table - Tighten console permissions for privileged users - Limits on Resource * General Optimization - Static vs Shared Libraries - The Glibc 2.2 library of linux - Why Linux programs are distributed as source - The gcc specs file - Stripping all binaries and libraries files - Tuning IDE Hard Disk Performance * Kernel Security and optimization - Modularized Kernel and Monolithic Kernel - Tuning the Kernel - Cleaning up the Kernel - Configuring the Kernel - Compiling - Installing - modules.conf - Rescue Floppies for Modularized and Monolithic Kernel * Process files system Management - What is sysctl? - /proc/sys/vm: Virtual Memory subsystem - /proc/sys/fs: File system Data - Other possible optimization for the system * Firewall Basic Concept - IANA - Port Numbers - What is Firewall - Packet Filter vs. Application Gateway - Network Firewall Security Policy - Demilitarized Zone - Linux IP tables Firewall Packet Filter * Installation and Optimization of the following application - QMAIL with POP, IMAP, SSL, Webmail (Horde/IMP) - PHP - POSTGRESQL - ProFTPD (Basic and Anonymous) - Apache - Samba - Tar and Dump _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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