Thursday, March 02, 2006
The R Zone: Hardening a Linux server in 10 minutes
Site: The R Zone
Post: Hardening a Linux server in 10 minutes
The post outlines two steps in hardening a Linux server. The first step is to turn off all unneeded services. This is great but as newbie Linux user I don't know which services I need and which ones are extra. This is a small but important detail. Can anyone help me out here but point me to the correct documentation? The second step it to limit access to running services using iptables. This article makes editing the iptables sound trivial. This article makes it sound easy to harden a Linux box. Is it really this easy?
I know that hardening a Linux is something you want to do if the box is going to be exposed to the internet. I am interested in learning to harden a server to expand my basic knowledge server administration. Who knows may be one day I will set my own server on the internet.
Post: Hardening a Linux server in 10 minutes
The post outlines two steps in hardening a Linux server. The first step is to turn off all unneeded services. This is great but as newbie Linux user I don't know which services I need and which ones are extra. This is a small but important detail. Can anyone help me out here but point me to the correct documentation? The second step it to limit access to running services using iptables. This article makes editing the iptables sound trivial. This article makes it sound easy to harden a Linux box. Is it really this easy?
I know that hardening a Linux is something you want to do if the box is going to be exposed to the internet. I am interested in learning to harden a server to expand my basic knowledge server administration. Who knows may be one day I will set my own server on the internet.
# posted by Wicks Works @ 10:14 PM 
