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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
What This Book Doesn’t Cover
This book covers general Linux system security, perimeter (Internet-accessible) net-
work security, and server-application security. Specific procedures, as well as tips for
specific techniques and software tools, are discussed throughout, and differences
between the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SUSE 9, and Debian 3 GNU/Linux
distributions are addressed in detail.
This book does not cover the following topics explicitly or in detail:
Linux distributions besides Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and Debian, although with
regard to application security (which amounts to the better part of the book),
this shouldn’t be a problem for users of Slackware, Turbolinux, etc.
Other open source operating systems such as OpenBSD (again, much of what is
covered should be relevant, especially application security)
Applications that are inappropriate for or otherwise unlikely to be found on pub-
licly accessible systems (e.g., Samba)
Desktop (non-networked) applications
Dedicated firewall systems (this book contains a subset of what is required to
build a good firewall system)
Physical security, which admittedly is extremely important but is not in any way
unique to Linux systems
Assumptions This Book Makes
While security itself is too important to relegate ...
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