December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 30m
English
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Chapter 4. FreeBSD Station Security
This chapter demonstrates how to lock down FreeBSD workstations for use on a wireless network. It will explain required and recommended kernel tuning, secure configuration of the wireless card, locking down the operating system, and adding third-party software to further enhance the security of the machine. Many of the security practices documented in this chapter are general best practices that should be applied to any workstation (but rarely are). However, without mechanisms geared for wireless security, standard wired network best practices alone are not enough.
FreeBSD Client Setup
FreeBSD has a long history of wireless networking support. FreeBSD had robust support for the original 802.11 cards and has continued to support 802.11b cards. As of this writing, several 802.11a cards have experimental support under FreeBSD-current. Unless otherwise noted, the examples given in this chapter are for FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. For information regarding this release or for questions on FreeBSD in general, please see http://www.freebsd.org/.
As in any other discussion of setting up a secure platform, the steps outlined below are governed by the Principle of Least Privilege. The Principle of Least Privilege means that a user or system should be given only the required amount of privilege to perform the required tasks. This principle can be extended to configuring an operating system. Only required services, kernel configuration options, users, and files ...
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