There are Perl scripts, called Bastille, that I have found helpful. They walk one through the process of locking down various services. There are good explanations on screen as you go about the reasons and trade-offs involved. It took a bit of study for me to learn to run the scripts, because Speakup wasn't tracking as nicely as I might have liked, but I did get it figured out. Also, just the text in these scripts is an excellent primer on security, imho. Look for the scripts at http://www.bastille-linux.org. On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Joseph Norton wrote: > All this talk about security brings up an interesting question. Are there > things one can look for to tell his system is being hacked or that > attempts are being made. I have looked in /var/log/messages and > /var/log/syslog, but, I'm really not sure what to look for. I remember > seeing the word "victim" somewhere in a cert advisory (I think), but, I > assume if I see this word, my system has definitely been compromised. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net (202) 408-8175 http://www.afb.org/gov.html The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning achievment of the past millenium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at: http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users. Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how.
