From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 11:40:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B0137B937 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA66489; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:40:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:40:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Allan Peak Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security In-Reply-To: <20000615164939.2204.qmail@web1609.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1) subscribe to the bugtraq mailing list. I believe they have a website @ www.securityfocus.com. 2) A good Unix administration book will help put in context what you want/need to do. I.e., is this a webserver (pretty insecure by its nature), a host on a corporate intra/internet, etc. Unix Suystem Admin Handbook, Prentice Hall, Evi Nemeth, et all Essential System Admin, O'Reilly, Aeleen Frisch If you only have one I like Nemeth as it sorts out the differences between various Unixes and is pretty complete. Bugtraq does not fits your easy to understand criteria, but if you toss the NT stuff and stick with it, there is a lot to be learned by reading what you can understand. I think there are archives somewhere also. On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Allan Peak wrote: > I know very little about system security. Is there > any good and easy to understand info that would help > me defend against crackers? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message