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Linux Server Security, Second Edition
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Linux Server Security, Second Edition

by Michael D. Bauer
January 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
23h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface
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hosts. Linux Journal generously granted me permission to adapt my columns for
such a book, and under the foolish belief that writing one would amount mainly to
knitting the columns together, updating them, and adding one or two new topics, I
proposed this book to O’Reilly, and they accepted.
Predictably, the book project was exponentially more work than I could have imag-
ined. I spent a great deal of effort re-researching and expanding all of it, including
retesting all examples and procedures. I added entire (lengthy) chapters on topics I
hadn’t yet covered at all in the magazine, and I more than doubled the size and scope
of others. In short, I allowed this to become The Book That Ate My Life in the hope
of reducing the number of ugly security surprises in my readers’ lives.
The Second Edition
I’d be out of character if I started doing things the smart and easy way, like writing a
second edition by simply updating the old material and fixing the errata. No, besides
changing the title and updating and revalidating the old material, I’ve added:
An all-new chapter on using LDAP for authentication services
An all-new chapter by Bill Lubanovic on database security
Lengthy sections in Chapter 9 on LDAP and Cyrus-Imapd, plus an introduction
to email encryption
Comprehensive ...
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