Skip to Content
Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition
book

Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition

by Michael W. Lucas
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
25h 1m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition

Chapter 9. Advanced Security Features

Advanced Security Features

FreeBSD includes a variety of tools for securing network traffic and users. You can allow and disallow connections to or from certain parts of the Internet. You can cage users in a virtual machine, or jail, where they can access everything that’s important to them but nothing that’s important to you. Packet filtering lets you control who can access your system. In this chapter, we’ll examine these tools and techniques, look at monitoring your system’s security, and discuss how to react if you suffer an intrusion.

Let’s start with a very basic security topic: unprivileged users.

Unprivileged Users

An unprivileged ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition

Michael W. Lucas
Absolute OpenBSD

Absolute OpenBSD

Michael W. Lucas
Building Embedded Linux Systems, 2nd Edition

Building Embedded Linux Systems, 2nd Edition

Philippe Gerum, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef
Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security

Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security

Paco Hope, Bruce Potter, Yanek Korff

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781593271510Errata