Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:51:26 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security Message-ID: <3800ddd5.315266549@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAIL19991009163225.19838.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <MAIL19991009163225.19838.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 9 Oct 1999 12:32:53 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hi >I am looking to learn more about Unix/BSD >security as far as setting up syslog,umask >values, file ownership, ftp, creating profiles, >NFS, Firewall and anything else to secure severs. The Firewall book at www.ora.com is one place to start, another is www.securityfocus.com. This will give you a rough place to start in terms of the concepts you will need to understand. Once you have identified the various concepts, search through the mailinglist archives at www.dejanews.com (power search through mailing.freebsd.*,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.* ) on each of those concepts for discussions of them in the past as they relate to FreeBSD. e.g. packetfiltering -> ipfw, look for discussions around ipfw through the mailing lists. One topic that does not seem to be emphasized enough is the human aspect. You can have the best technical security systems in place, but if there is no one paying attention to what is happening, you are not too far ahead. Something simple like, logging. Yeah, the popper daemon actually log password errors on pop3 sessions, but if no one examines the logs, what good is it ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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