On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:21, Dave Pawson wrote: > > Is there a document for system hardening? Is there interest for one? > If I ask the obvious, will that provide some answer? > What's system hardening? > .. > Or at least, hardening against what? Q.v.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardening "In Computing, hardening is known as the process of securing a system. This work especially is done to protect systems against attackers. "This would typically include removal of unnecessary usernames / logins and the disabling or removal of unecessary services. On a typical Windows based server, one example would be the disabling of the "print spooler" as this may not be needed." -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
