HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

Auditing and Security

Under Auditing and Security, you manage the security of your system. This is becoming an increasingly important aspect of system management. Some installations care very little about security because of well-known, limited groups of users who will access a system. Other installations, such as those connected to the Internet, may go to great pains to make their systems into fortresses, with firewalls checking each and every user who attempts to access a system. I suggest that you take a close look at all the ramifications of security, and specifically a trusted system, before you enable security. You'll want to review the “Managing System Security” section of the “Administering A System” chapter of the Managing Systems and ...