Re: Secure host newbie

From: Mitchell Rowton (mrowton_at_bdo.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:59:40 -0500
    To: <xilopublic1@ca.inter.net>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    
    

    A good place to start
    http://www.linuxsecurity.com/

    Also read up on the specific apps
    http://www.apache.org/

    Also try SecurityDocs, check out the web security area, but there are
    more specific areas to look into (apache, ssh, and ssl are separate
    categories.)
    http://www.securitydocs.com/

    When you come up with specific questions let us know!

    >>> <xilopublic1@ca.inter.net> 03/29/04 03:04PM >>>
    Hi there,
      I'm going to put a host on the internet in a day or two, it will be
    closed to public
    during the development stage. We
    have a lot of services to setup and I was wondering about security
    issues for each of
    these services. We will be
    running this on a Redhat 7.3 base system.

    The services we will have are HTTP (Apache), private FTP, SSH access,
    POP server for our
    users, SMTP for users
    that would have to use ours, SSL for secure money transactions, might
    have news server,
    might have a MP3 stream
    server and will have home-made servers for home-made clients.

    Now, before I ask you guys a whole lot of newbie questions, I would
    like to read good
    documents on these topics.
    Howtos, documentation, tutorials, books, all kinds of references are
    appreciated,
    especially if I can get them free!
    (Since our budget is extremely limited).

    Thanks,
     
    Simon

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