I recently loaded CentOS 4.5 on a new system. I am looking for a guide for hardening the system. I found a pretty good one for Redhat:
http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml
I was hoping I could use it, but it deals with rpms and I know CentOS uses [b]yum[/b], which got me thinking that I should look for a good guide written specifically for CentOS. I plan on using this system as an IDS/firewall. I loaded it with minimal packages and a boot loader password.
Where should I go from here?
Locking Down CentOS 4.5
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Re: Locking Down CentOS 4.5
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jason_nixon_205 wrote:
I recently loaded CentOS 4.5 on a new system. I am looking for a guide for hardening the system. I found a pretty good one for Redhat:
http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml
I was hoping I could use it, but it deals with rpms and I know CentOS uses [b]yum[/b], which got me thinking that I should look for a good guide written specifically for CentOS. I plan on using this system as an IDS/firewall. I loaded it with minimal packages and a boot loader password.
Where should I go from here?[/quote]
Yum uses RPM. Think of it as a front-end.
jason_nixon_205 wrote:
I recently loaded CentOS 4.5 on a new system. I am looking for a guide for hardening the system. I found a pretty good one for Redhat:
http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml
I was hoping I could use it, but it deals with rpms and I know CentOS uses [b]yum[/b], which got me thinking that I should look for a good guide written specifically for CentOS. I plan on using this system as an IDS/firewall. I loaded it with minimal packages and a boot loader password.
Where should I go from here?[/quote]
Yum uses RPM. Think of it as a front-end.
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jason_nixon_205
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Re: Locking Down CentOS 4.5
[quote]Yum uses RPM. Think of it as a front-end.[/quote]
Did you look at the guide I linked to? Does it look good to you?
Did you look at the guide I linked to? Does it look good to you?
Re: Locking Down CentOS 4.5
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jason_nixon_205 wrote:
[quote]Yum uses RPM. Think of it as a front-end.[/quote]
Did you look at the guide I linked to? Does it look good to you?[/quote]
It seems to be a good, distro-agnostic guide.
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialInternetSecurity.html has some discussion on some of the more popular scanning tools like Nessus that might be of interest.
jason_nixon_205 wrote:
[quote]Yum uses RPM. Think of it as a front-end.[/quote]
Did you look at the guide I linked to? Does it look good to you?[/quote]
It seems to be a good, distro-agnostic guide.
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialInternetSecurity.html has some discussion on some of the more popular scanning tools like Nessus that might be of interest.