From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 9 13:02:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DA916A494 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:02:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD26043D5A for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:02:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (orgfel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kA9D22pK090748; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:02:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id kA9D22BD090747; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:02:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:02:02 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200611091302.kA9D22BD090747@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, vini@fugspbr.org In-Reply-To: <455324F2.9090603@fugspbr.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:02:07 +0100 (CET) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:45:15 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Hardening FreeBSD, does anyone have any documentation that may help? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:02:10 -0000 Vini Engel wrote: > This may not seem to be the best place to ask for this but as this is > supposed to be a list for high level discussions I am assuming that some > people have must know how to harden FreeBSD and/or may have articles and > other docs that can be shared. A good place to start is the security(7) manual page, and the security-related sections in the FreeBSD Handbook. Of course, pretty much any generic book on UNIX security applies to FreeBSD, too. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn