Chapter 41. Perform Security Administration Tasks

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Audit a system to find files with the suid/sgid bit set

Set or change user passwords and password-aging information

Being able to use nmap and netstat to discover open ports on a system

Set up limits on user logins, processes, ...

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